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Airline data

Posted by Oleg Solovyev on Apr 13, 2011

US Bureau of Transportation Statistics not only collects data but provides access to it through its web site BTS.gov. For example SAS uses airline data in its advertising and education materials to demonstrate time series forecasting.

Airline data graph

This time series is ideal for demonstration because it contains the trend (the average of 12 months is constantly increasing) and seasonality (every value “repeats” every 12 months). This article shows how to download this data and import it into SAS.

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