This book provides a broad introduction to computational aspects of
Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) which is a non-parametric technique and
requires no prior assumptions such as stationarity, normality or
linearity of the series. This book is unique as it not only details the
theoretical aspects underlying SSA, but also provides a comprehensive
guide enabling the user to apply the theory in practice using the R
software. Further, it provides the user with step- by- step coding and
guidance for the practical application of the SSA technique to analyze
their time series databases using R. The first two chapters present
basic notions of univariate and multivariate SSA and their
implementations in R environment. The next chapters discuss the
applications of SSA to change point detection, missing-data imputation,
smoothing and filtering. This book is appropriate for researchers, upper
level students (masters level and beyond) and practitioners wishing to
revive their knowledge of times series analysis or to quickly learn
about the main mechanisms of SSA.