Adjustment of Monthly or Quarterly Series to Annual Totals: An Approach Based on Quadratic Minimization
使月度或季度序列与年度总量一致:基于二次最小化的方法
This article considers the problem of adjusting monthly or quarterly time series to make them accord with independent annual totals or averages without introducing artificial discontinuities. A general approach and some specific procedures involving constrained minimization of a quadratic form in the differences between revised and unrevised series are proposed. Some computational advantages are noted. Attention is given to the relationships between the adjustment problem…