Hey all, first time poster here. I'm new to R and working on my first real programming and forecasting asignment. I'm using unemployment data from 1948-2012. I successfully completed part a and the linear fit for part b, but i am really struggling fitting a polynomial with a power greater than 2 to my forecast. I'll upload my R code at the bottom. Any help is very much appreciated! Thank You!
(a) Produce a time-series plot of your data. (b) Fit linear, polynomial (use a power greater than 2), and R’s best fit models to your series. rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)) z=read.table("longtermunempdata.txt") names(z)= c("Unemployment") attach(z) TIME=seq(1,769,by=1) Unemployment_ts<-ts(Unemployment,start=1948,freq=12) #quartz() #plot(stl(Unemployment_ts,s.window="periodic")) #1A quartz() plot(TIME, Unemployment, xlab="Year", ylab="Long Term Unemployment",type='l') #1B Linear quartz() plot(TIME,Unemployment,type="l", xlab="Year",ylab="Long Term Unemployment") modelu=lm(Unemployment~TIME) summary(modelu) abline(modelu,col="red3") modelu=lm(Unemployment~TIME) #1B Linear vs TS quartz() par(mfrow=c(2,1)) plot(TIME, Unemployment, xlab="Year", ylab="Long Term Unemployment",type='l') abline(modelu,col="red3",lwd=2) plot(TIME,modelu$res,xlab="Year",ylab="Long Term Unemployment",type='l') -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Fitting-polynomial-power-greater-than-2-tp4368026p4368026.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.