The X11 Procedure

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Dagum, E. B. (1982b), “Revisions of Seasonally Adjusted Data Due to Filter Changes,” Proceedings of the Business and Economic Section, the American Statistical Association, 39–45.

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Dagum, E. B. and Laniel, N. (1987), “Revisions of Trend Cycle Estimators of Moving Average Seasonal Adjustment Method,” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 5, 177–189.

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Findley, D. F., Monsell, B. C., Shulman, H. B., and Pugh, M. G. (1990), “Sliding Spans Diagnostics for Seasonal and Related Adjustments,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85, 345–355.

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Higginson, J. (1975), An F Test for the Presence of Moving Seasonality When Using Census Method II-X-II Variant, StatCan Staff Paper STC2102E, Seasonal Adjustment and Time Series Analysis Staff, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

Huot, G., Chui, L., Higginson, J., and Gait, N. (1986), “Analysis of Revisions in the Seasonal Adjustment of Data Using X11ARIMA Model-Based Filters,” International Journal of Forecasting, 2, 217–229.

Ladiray, D. and Quenneville, B. (2001), Seasonal Adjustment with the X-11 Method, New York: Springer-Verlag.

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Ljung, G. M. and Box, G. E. P. (1978), “On a Measure of Lack of Fit in Time Series Models,” Biometrika, 65, 297–303.

Lothian, J. (1978), The Identification and Treatment of Moving Seasonality in the X-11 Seasonal Adjustment Method, StatCan Staff Paper STC0803E, Seasonal Adjustment and Time Series Analysis Staff, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

Lothian, J. (1984a), The Identification and Treatment of Moving Seasonality in the X-11-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment Method, StatCan Staff Paper, Seasonal Adjustment and Time Series Analysis Staff, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

Lothian, J. (1984b), “The Identification and Treatment of Moving Seasonality in X-11-ARIMA,” in Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, 166–171, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

Lothian, J. and Morry, M. (1978a), Selection of Models for the Automated X-11-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment Program, StatCan Staff Paper STC1789, Seasonal Adjustment & Time Series Analysis Staff, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

Lothian, J. and Morry, M. (1978b), A Test for the Presence of Identifiable Seasonality When Using the X-11-ARIMA Program, StatCan Staff Paper STC2118, Seasonal Adjustment and Time Series Analysis Staff, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

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Monsell, B. C. (1984), The Substantive Changes in the X-11 Procedure of X-11-ARIMA, SRD Research Report Census/SRD/RR-84/10, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Research Division.

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Shiskin, J. (1958), “Decomposition of Economic Time Series,” Science, 128, 1539–1546.

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Shiskin, J., Young, A. H., and Musgrave, J. C. (1967), The X-11 Variant of the Census Method II Seasonal Adjustment Program, Technical Report 15, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

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