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Robust Time Series Models with Trend and Seasonal Components

Robust Time Series Models with Trend and Seasonal Components, Michele Caivano, Andrew Harvey and Alessandra Luati, SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Vol 7, pp. 99-120 (2016)

Abstract: 

We describe observation driven time series models for Student-t and EGB2 conditional distributions in which the signal is a linear function of past values of the score of the conditional distribution. These specifications produce models that are easy to implement and deal with outliers by what amounts to a soft form of trimming in the case of t and a soft form of Winsorizing in the case of EGB2. We show how a model with trend and seasonal components can be used as the basis for a seasonal adjustment procedure. The methods are illustrated with US and Spanish data.

Publication Authors: 
Caivano, M., Harvey, A. C. and Luati, A.
Year Publication: 
2016
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