SLIIT International Conference on Advancements in Science and Humanities [SICASH]

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SLIIT International Conference on Advancements in Science and Humanities is organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), the annual research multi-conference of the faculty.

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    Predictive Model for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) using Volatility Analysis Approach
    (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences,SLIIT, 2025-10-10) Musharraff, N. I.; Fernando, W. S. C.; Godage, T. R.; Jayasooriya, J. M. T. S.; Siriwardhana, H. A. A. T. P.; Samasundara, T. A.; Guruge, M. L.; Peiris, T. S. G.
    The S&P 500 (Standard & poor’s 500) is one of the most widely followed equity indices in the world. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) is used to track the performance of the S&P 500 index as closely as possible and can also be traded in the stock exchanges. Not many studies have been carried out to forecast daily closing prices of SPY for recent years. This study presents a time series analysis and forecasting of the daily closing prices of the SPY index. The dataset extends from 2000 to 2025, capturing key financial events, market movements and long-term growth trends. Due to high volatility, we were forced to consider variance equation in additional to the mean equation and the best fitted model identifies is ARIMA (1,1,1) + GARCH (1,1).ARIMA
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    Model Comparison to Forecast Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in China
    (Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2023-11-01) Koswaththa, N.B.K.S.M.; Gaganathara, G.A.G.D.; Fernando, A.S.M.S; Dissanayake, M.D.T.G.; Guruge, M. L.
    Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an accurate indicator to measure the size of the economic performance of a country and its growth rate. This study focuses on finding a suitable model to forecast GDP in China, which is one of the world’s largest and most rapidly developing economies. A simple linear regression model with AR(1) error structure and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model were developed and compared for the purpose. A secondary data set which includes GDP in China from 1952 to 2020 was used for this study and the sample size was 69. Residual diagnostics tests were conducted to check the assumptions and model adequacy of each model. It was found that out of the fitted models, ARIMA (1,1,1) is the most appropriate model to forecast GDP in China as it gave lower MAE and RMSE compared to fitted simple linear regression model with AR(1) error structure. Model comparison was done using Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE). The predicted values for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are 1436349, 1447149 and 1457950 respectively. E-views 8.0 and Minitab software were used to analyze the data.