As in the last post, here's some more work in excel with economic variables. This time I use value forecasts of 30y mortgage, unemployment, and personal income rates, figured in a similar manner as before (annual growth/change rates - 10y moving averages) to predict future levels of personal consumption expenditures. I run a multilinear regression analysis to forecast PCE based upon the three independent variables and end up with some pretty strong results and an adjusted R-squared of .974.

A look at the world happiness index and an evaluation of the factors that contribute to the general happiness of a countries population. Variables were primarily focused on economic, political, and elegantarian factors. Originally conducted as a project for my SNHU Applied Stats II class. As it ended at around 30 pages, included is only a subset of the full project.