Facility to save and recover models Critical Requirements - Univariate Page 1 of 2 Autobox Forecast Pro SAS Facility to save and recover models Statistical facility to automatically incorporate level shifts Statistical facility to automatically incorporate pulses Statistical facility to automatically incorporate seasonal pulses Statistical facility to automatically incorporate local time trends Statistical Detect points in time where parameters change significantly(CHOW test) Statistical Detect where the variance of the errors changes significantly(TSAY test) Facility to detect correct power transformation (ie log, reciprocals, constancy of variance) Facility to ensure that the final model only includes significant parameters and that the error process is tested to ensure all of the Gaussian assumptions Facility to automatically test for model invertibility & automatic remodeling

Statistical facility to automatically incorporate level shifts Critical Requirements –Causal Models Page 2 of 2 Autobox Forecast Pro SAS Statistical facility to automatically incorporate level shifts Statistical facility to automatically incorporate pulses Statistical facility to automatically incorporate seasonal pulses Statistical facility to automatically incorporate local time trends Facility to automatically forecast user specified causal variables Facility to automatically detect contemporaneous and lag effects of user variables Facility to automatically detect lead effects of user variables