Descriptive Seasonal Adjustment by Minimizing Perturbations

Ekkehart Schlicht and Ralf Pauly

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: The seasonal adjustment method proposed by Schlicht (1981) can be viewed as a method that minimizes non-stochastic deviations (perturbations). This interpretation gives rise to a critique of the seasonality criterion used there. A new seasonality criterion is proposed that avoids these shortcomings, and the resulting seasonal adjustment method is given

Keywords: seasonal adjustment; seasonality; smoothing; spline; descriptive decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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Published in Empirica 1 9(1983): pp. 15-28

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