| | 1: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 1983 May | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This report is an introduction to the fundamentals of seasonal analysis, with an emphasis on applications to applied social research, especially criminal justice. Administrators, policy makers, researchers, and others who make decisions based on social indicators now have time series data available that allow then to answer questions that could not be answered only a few years ago. But to answer these questions, it is necessary to use methods appropriate to the analysis of time series, including methods of detecting and analyzing seasonality. Other social sciences have long has a wealth of time series data available to them, and have developed methods to analyze seasonality in those data. This report guides the reader to the use of the most common of these methods. | | | | Date Created: | 07-01-1984 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000102233 Original UID: 208243 FIRST WORD: How | |
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