The separated electromagnetic responses RL(q, ω) and RT (q, ω) for inclusive electron scattering off nuclei are studied within a functional scheme.

Abeysinghe (Economic Letters, 1991, 36, 175-197; Journal of Econometrics, 1994, forthcoming) showed that seasonal dummies in regressions may lead to spurious inference. This paper evaluates the post-sample forecasting performance of a seasonal-dummy ARIMA model with four other models. The results, in general, do not stand in favor of the seasonal-dummy approach. JEL classification: C53

This paper suggests a new semi-parametric multivariate approach to seasonal adjustment. The primary innovation is to use a large dimensional factor model of cross section dependence to estimate the trend component in the seasonal decomposition of each time series. Because the trend component is speci…ed to capture covariation between the time series, common changes in the level of the time seri...

Online short-term load forecasting is needed for the real-time scheduling of electricity generation. Univariate methods have been developed that model the intraweek and intraday seasonal cycles in intraday load data. Three such methods, shown to be competitive in recent empirical studies, are double seasonal ARMA, an adaptation of Holt-Winters exponential smoothing for double seasonality, and a...

BACKGROUND Official statistics under-estimate influenza deaths. Time series methods allow the estimation of influenza-attributable mortality. The methods often model background, non-influenza mortality using a cyclic, harmonic regression model based on the Serfling approach. This approach assumes that the seasonal pattern of non-influenza mortality is the same each year, which may not always be...