Abstract
This paper suggests a simple nonmetric method for smoothing time series data. The smoothed series is the closest polytone curve to the presmoothed series in terms of least sum of absolute deviations. The method is exemplified on several seasonally adjusted series in order to estimate their trend component.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 515-536 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 1988 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This paper was written in part while the authors were at Baruch ~oll&e -- CUNY and Columbia University, respectively. Many thanks are due to E. Parzen and the referee for their fruitful comments. This work was supported, in part, by the Recanati Foundation.
Keywords
- Monotone Curve
- Polytone Curve
- Seasonally-adjusted data
- Trend component