This project was awarded by CAPES – Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, under the Ministry of Education. It was funded through the Ciências sem Fronteiras (Science Without Borders) program to develop a project entitled "Singular Spectrum Analysis and Multivariate Singular Spectrum Analysis," under the terms of public call MEC/MCTI/CAPES/CNPq/FAPs No. 08/2014, as part of the Jovem Talento – First Call (Process number 88881.062137/2014-01; Proposal number 189594). The project received a total amount of approximately 186,000 BRL (~57,500 USD) and was valid from June 2014 to June 2018.