Smoothing techniques applied to a key economic issue: The "convergence" hypothesis

Computational Statistics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 481-494

  Desdoigts, Alain ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

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