The Philippine Statistical Research and Training Institute (PSRTI) in its role as the research and training arm of the Philippine Statistical System started 2019 with a Customized Training Course on Regression Analysis and Forecasting for the Senate Economic Planning Office (SEPO) of the Senate of the Philippines on January 7-12, 2019. Participants include technical staff not only from SEPO but also those from the Office of the Senate President and Senator Sherwin Gatchalian.

The course aimed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills in understanding and explaining relationships among variables and principles and steps of the Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) approach in modeling and forecasting.

Tapped as resource person of the 17 participants during the 6-day training is Professor Manuel Leonard F. Albis of the University of the Philippines School of Statistics in Diliman, Quezon City.