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Software Reviews : GIANTS (Graphical Interactive Analysis of Time Series) Publisher: SciTech International, Inc., Baliwick Court Bldg., 2231 N. Clybourn Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-3011; 800-622-3345 Year: 1991 Version: 1.1 Materials: Manual and three 5.25" diskettes or two 3.5" diskettes Price: $395 commercial & $295 academic Machine Specificity: IBM PC XT/AT or compatible System Requirements: At least 640KB of RAM and 1MB hard disk memory; MS-DOS 3.3 or later versions Effectiveness: Fair User Friendliness: Fair Documentation: Poor

GIANTS is a time-series software package written by aca demics at Moscow State University and published in the United States by SciTech International, Inc. The package can be used to obtain periodograms; estimate moving average models and sample coherence functions; test AR-hypotheses; conduct Kepstral analysis; calculate autoregressive estimators for spectral density; estimate in tervention and seasonal ARIMA models; and forecasting. The program is easy to install but is cumbersome to work with given its unusual and limited use of a mouse, inability to clear screens, lack of options for editing graphs and data, and poor documentation.

Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 12, No. 3, 461-462 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/089443939401200312
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