Quote from FishSauce:
I think he has to get a grad degree or at the very least a very dedicated ambition to learn intermediate time series analysis (aka books, ex. Hamilton's classic)
I cant imagine an undergrad running time series decomposition or markov process, or basic bootstrapping.... you now what i mean?
To us, it seems so easy, but the theory and concept must be learned. Implementation is pretty useless unless the underlying factors are understood. There's really no short cut.
well, that just my two cents
In general, yes, but there are motivated exceptions. I was on the thesis committee of a honors student this year and ended up working with him quite a bit. I don't think he took a lot of stats and econometrics, but he was pretty quick and I was generally impressed.
