Preface

Chapter 2 has been tentatively accepted by the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics for the second-round revision. It has won the ASA Statistical Graphics Student Paper Award and the ACEMS Business Analytics Prize in 2018. Chapter 3 has been accepted by the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. The accompanying R package tsibble has won the John Chambers Statistical Software Award in 2019. Chapter 4 is yet to be submitted.

Open and reproducible research

This thesis is written in R Markdown (Xie, Allaire, and Grolemund 2018) with bookdown (Xie 2016), using renv (Ushey 2019) to create reproducible environments. The online version of this thesis is hosted at https://thesis.earo.me, powered by Netlify. All materials (including the data sets and source files) required to reproduce this document can be found at the Github repository https://github.com/earowang/thesis.

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