Center for Forecasting and Data Analytics

CFDA is a center focusing on the analysis of various type of data using methods and models of statistics, econometrics, mathematics, and computer science The data that are analyzed range from surveys (small data, say) to very large data sets (big data) including marketing and retail big data, micro/macro data, and financial data. CFDA research will focus on extracting (high quality) information and pattern recognition in data. Such research gives valuable insights in economics, finance and business administration while establishing new models and hypothesis to be tested. Such research is also useful for decision making at various levels in organizations. CFDA will emphasize the communication of findings and results rendering a broad outreach.