Price Imputation and Other Techniques for Dealing with Missing Observations, Seasonality and Quality Change in Price Indices /

Price index compilers frequently face situations where price observations are missing due to seasonal unavailability, supply shortages, or the discontinuation of products. Incorrect treatment of such situations can result in biased price indices. This paper presents statistical imputation techniques...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Armknecht Jr., Paul
مؤلفون آخرون: Maitland-Smith, Fenella
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/078
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF