Structural tools for seasonal analysis

Data visualization methods have a pivotal role in time series analysis, and in particular with seasonal analysis. As we saw in the preceding examples, the use of data visualization tools allows us to communicate statistical results in an intuitive and insightful way. In the coming sections, we will introduce built-in tools for seasonal analysis with the forecast and TSstudio packages.

Seasonal analysis with the forecast package

The forecast package provides several functions for seasonal analysis based on the ggplot2 package graphics engine (and the base plot function) and it supports the ts objects. The ggseasonplot function creates a seasonal plot of the series by splitting and plotting...