Modelling political popularity: An analysis of long-range dependence in opinion poll series

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 471-490

  Byers, David ^b   Davidson, James ^a   Peel, David ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fractionally integrated processes; Long memory; Opinion polls; Political popularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040514889     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.1997.00075.x     Document Type: Article

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