In this study, we examine statistically the dependence between Seasonal Variation of consumed values and the ChainErrors of corresponding excellent indices in different subgroups Ak. First, cyclic seasonal variation of values is calculated by simple regression analysis and the ChainError is...

This note gives a fairly complete statistical description of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter (1997), originally proposed by Leser (1961). It builds on an approach to seasonal adjustment suggested by Leser (1963) and Schlicht (1981, 1984). A moments estimator for the smoothing parameter is proposed...