This textbook offers the reader a clear and comprehensive introduction to statistical methodology and data analysis using EXCEL and SPSS. To supplement the textbook, an additional volume has been published, Understanding Statistics with Excel – Interactive Learning and Application, which...

The papers assembled in this book were presented at the biannual Symposium of the International Association for Statistical Computing in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in August of 1992. This congress maintaines the tradition of providing a forum for the open discussion of progress made in computer...

Verlagsbeschreibung: Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine übersichtliche und umfassende Einführung in die statistische Methodenlehre und Datenanalyse mit Excel und SPSS.Zur Anwendung und weiteren Vertiefung der statistischen Methoden ist, in Ergänzung zu diesem Lehrbuch, das Buch ?Statistik verstehen...

Trend extraction from time series is often performed by using the filter proposed by Leser (1961), also known as the Hodrick-Prescott filter. A practical problem arises, however, when the time series contains structural breaks (such as produced by German unification for German time series, for...