New capabilities and methods of the x-12-arima seasonal-adjustment program

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-152

  Findley, David F ^a   Monsell, Brian C ^a   Bell, William R ^a   Otto, Mark C ^b   Chen, Bor Chung ^a  

^a U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Model selection; RegARIMA models; Trading day models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000293881     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1998.10524743     Document Type: Article

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