Seasonal Adjustment of Data for Econometric Analysis
用于计量经济分析的数据季节调整
An earlier paper [3] provides axioms for the seasonal adjustment of economic time series. Seasonally adjusted data should be minimum variance, unbiased, and linear in an appropriate sense. These axioms yield a unique method for seasonal adjustment. The seasonally adjusted data may be obtained by an application of ordinary least squares regression.1 The problem of seasonal adjustment of economic time series in [3] is not the same as the problem of seasonal adjustment of data…