Best linear unbiased disaggregation of annual GDP to quarterly figures: The case of Malaysia

Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 527-537

  Abeysinghe, Tilak ^a,c,d,e   Lee, Christopher ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^d THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chow Lin procedure; Seasonality; Structural time series approach; Univariate interpolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010598526     PISSN: 02776693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-131X(199812)17:7<527::AID-FOR682>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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