Time-series intervention analysis using ITSACORR: Fatal flaws

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 367-379

  Huitema, Bradley E ^a,c   McKean, Joseph W ^a,c   Laraway, Sean ^b,c  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology ^*

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Time series intervention analysis; Time series regression with auoregressive errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249083903     PISSN: 15389472     EISSN: 15389472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22237/jmasm/1193889780     Document Type: Article

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