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by WastingMyTime89 1596 days ago
Can you produce really insightful and correct analysis of time series without understanding what you are doing? No.

There are no shortcuts with statistics. It will all seem to work out fine until you involuntary shoot yourself in the foot and you most likely will because doing forecasting properly is tricky. If you are lucky you will notice something doesn’t look right but you might not.