Towards an expert system for economic statistics and forecasting

The project of an expert system for economic statistics and forecasting being developed at the Université Libre de Bruxelles is described here. One of the main aspects of the system is to be open to external economic data bases and also to data bases containing past economic, social and political events which might have affected the forecasting models. On the other hand, the system will use procedural programs for numerical computations. This paper is focused on two views: the development of the statistical package for times series modelling, called ANSECH, and the description of a demonstration prototype build for the multiple regression method.