Forecasting macroeconomic variables using data of different periodicities
β Scribed by Chung-Hua Shen
- Book ID
- 113290704
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 964 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0169-2070
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