We Are Pleased to Announce Release 8

Dear SCA System User:

We are pleased to announce Release 8 of the SCA Statistical System (Vista compatible). As a registered user of an earlier release of the SCA System, we are offering you the opportunity to upgradeto Release 8before December 31, 2007at a 20% to 25% discount. Among the many new capabilities included in Release 8 are nonlinear modeling, enhanced date handling, causality testing, and more.

Release 8 of the SCA System has beenre-organized into editions. These editions are designed to meet the needs of users with varying capability requirements and expertise in time series analysis and forecasting applications. We are also offering powerful integrated add-on products for applications in GARCH, multivariate adaptive regression splines modeling (MARSpline), and advanced econometric modeling. Please consider one or more SCAB34S add-on productsin your upgrade.

For more information on SCA software, please follow the link below to view a brochure that summarizes the capabilities of the SCA System and add-on components.

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The Practitioner Edition provides users with automatic time series modeling and automatic outlier handling methods in addition to user-directed methods. This edition will also appeal to users with large-scale forecasting applications or users interested in time series data mining and exploration. For those users with interest in expanded capabilities, Professional Edition (A or B) of the SCA System adds vector ARIMA and simultaneous transfer function models, causality tests, time-varying parameter models, segmented time series modeling and forecasting, GARCH and other nonlinear modeling, and more. All SCA editions include time-tested traditional methods for time series analysis and forecasting applications.

Your upgrade purchase also includesa 200 page document, New and Enhanced Capabilities in Release 8 of the SCA Statistical System. This document provides example-driven explanations of the new capabilities in Release 8 of the SCA System. To view the PDF document on-line, please click on the link below

For those users who would like an expanded and comprehensible discussion of time series methods supported in the SCA System, we recommend the second edition of the book, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, by Lon-Mu Liu. This second edition book can be purchased with your upgrade or can be purchased separately on the SCA website ( for $44.95.

If you have any questions about SCA software or other upgrade options (e.g., multiple copies, multi-user licensing, and annual licensing) before placing your order, please contact us by phone at (630) 834-4567 or by e-mail at .

Sincerely,

William Lattyak