David F. Findley

David Findley

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Education
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Other Professional Activities
Professional Affiliations
Professional Honors
Foreign Languages
Professional Publications and Overview
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Education

University of Cincinnati 1958-62 B.S. in Mathematics
University of Cincinnati 1962-63 M.A. in Mathematics
University of Maryland 1963-64 (Research Assistant)
University of Heidelberg 1964-65 (Hilfsassistent)
University of Frankfurt 1966-67 Dr. Phil. Nat. in Applied Mathematics (Magna cum laude)

 

Professional Experience

From June 2009, Consulting and training related to seasonal adjustment

July 1980-June 2009 U.S. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS Washington, D.C.

From March 2002, Senior Mathematical Statistician for Time Series Methods. Before this, Principal Researcher for Time Series Analysis. My duties included investigating and approving proposed changes in Census Bureau time series analysis procedures, providing research leadership for the Time Series Staff of the Statistical Research Division, and carrying out independent research to improve the Census Bureau's seasonal adjustment and related procedures. I also led the organization of five international research conferences.

1996-2001 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Research Consultant in the Department of Statistics. I supervised the PhD Dissertation research of James L. Cantor (PhD, 2001). This was described as the best doctoral dissertation done in the Department in the decade up to its completion.

2001 INSTITUTES OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS Academia Sinica Taipei

Visiting Research Fellow (6 weeks). Working with Ching-Zong Wei, I completed a paper on model selection. I also presented a short course on time series modeling and seasonal adjustment with X-12-ARIMA.

1994 VICTORIA UNIVERSITY Wellington, New Zealand

Visiting Research Fellow sponsored by the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (two weeks). I commented on a variety of seasonal adjustment research projects underway at the Institute of Statistics and Operations Research and worked with Thomas Mikosch to extend the theory supporting my graphical model-selection procedure to cover more situations, including models for time series with infinite variance.

1993 INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE Academia Sinica Taipei

Visiting Research Fellow (6 weeks). Working with Ching-Zong Wei, I completed a paper on AIC and developed the supporting large sample theory for some earlier work of mine on the use of recursive estimation procedures for model selection.

1992 UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER United Kingdom

Senior Research Fellow of the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (one month). I developed a theory of model overfitting to data due to parameter estimation and gave lectures on my model selection research.

1991 INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE Academia Sinica Taipei

Visiting Research Fellow (five months). I completed a research program with Ching-Zong Wei on moment bounds useful for model selection theory supporting Akaike's Information Criterion and gave lectures on model selection theory.

1987 INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS Tokyo

Visiting Professor (four months). I carried out research on model selection procedures and (with Genshiro Kitagawa) their application to ship autopilot design. I was the first person to hold a Visiting Professorship after a reorganization of the Institute into a PhD granting institution that created such positions.

1986 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Madison, Wisconsin

University Lecturer (one week). I lectured on the use of bootstrap methods in population forecasting.

1985 UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG Federal Republic of Germany

Visiting Professor of the Institute for Applied Mathematics (3 months). I carried out research on minimax procedures for determining the decomposition components of model-based seasonal adjustment as well as research on the uniqueness of time series representations.

1982-1984 BABCOCK AND WILCOX COMPANY Lynchburg, Virginia

Consultant for the design of statistical controllers for thermoelectric power plants utilizing TIMSAC programs and methods.

1975-1982 UNIVERSITY OF TULSA Tulsa, Oklahoma

Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences (Tenured September 1, 1979). My activities included teaching a two-semester graduate statistical time series course each year and the organization of two international research conferences, the Applied Time Series Symposium of May 14-15, 1976 and the Second Applied time Series Symposium of March 3-5, 1980. I arranged for the University of Tulsa to be the distributor of the TIMSAC computer program packages developed at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo. These were the most technically advanced statistical time series packages available at the time.

1977-1980 CITIES SERVICE OIL COMPANY Tulsa, Oklahoma

Consultant in Time Series Analysis to the Geophysical Research Group in the Laboratory of Cities Service Oil Company (full-time in the summers, one day a week during the academic year). My work included the application of Kalman filtering and time-varying autoregressive models to seismic signal processing. Several of the techniques which I developed and programmed were incorporated into the production program library.

1968-1975 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Cincinnati, Ohio

Assistant Professor of Mathematics. My duties included teaching the beginning graduate courses in functional analysis, mathematical statistics, and probability as well as undergraduate courses in time series analysis and design of experiments.

1973 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY United Kingdom

Visiting Scholar of St. John's College (four months). I carried out research on extensions of calculus for function spaces.

1967-1968 UNIVERSITY OF FRANKFURT Germany

Wissenschaftlicher Assistent. My activities included supporting masters (Diplom) and doctoral students and leading an advanced seminar in Functional Analysis.

1965-1966 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Cincinnati, Ohio

Instructor of Mathematics. I taught first and second year undergraduate courses.

 

Other Professional Activities

Julius Shiskin Award Committee (1999-present)
Committee on Fellows of the American Statistical Association (1992-96)
Associate Editor of the Annals of Statistics (1983-92)
Chair (2001), Program Chair (1988) and Secretary-Treasurer (1984) of the Business and Economics Section of the American Statistical Association
Council of the American Statistical Association (1978-80)

 

Professional Affiliations

American Statistical Association (Life Member)
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Life Member)
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Life Member)
Royal Statistical Society (Life Member)
Sigma Xi

Professional Honors

U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal (1997)
1996 Julius Shiskin Award (Sponsored by the Washington Statistical Society, the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, and the National Association of Business Economists)
Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1987)
U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal (1986)
U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal (1983)

Foreign Languages

Fluency in German
Limited speaking ability in Japanese and Spanish
Technical reading knowledge of French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish

 

Professional Publications and Overview

Overview of Research and Papers of Particular Interest

Since 1980, my research has chiefly been concerned with time series modeling and model selection procedures and with seasonal adjustment and diagnostics for seasonal adjustment. Most of the resulting articles and papers are co-authored, and it has been my good fortune to have many exceptionally able collaborators. Some of the model selection work is broadly motivated, but most of the research has been connected to efforts to strengthen the capabilities and diagnostics of the U.S. Census Bureau's seasonal adjustment software. This software, currently X-12-ARIMA version 0.3, is used worldwide to estimate seasonal and other calendar effects in monthly and quarterly economic data. It is freely downloadable from
     http://www.census.gov/srd/www/x12a/x12downv03_pc.html
A Windows interface program WinX12 that greatly facilitates the use of X-12-ARIMA can be found at      http://www.census.gov/srd/www/winx12/
X-12-ARIMA will be replaced later in 2010 with X-13-ARIMA-SEATS; see [11] below for more information about the latter and about the state of seasonal adjustment methodology around 2005. For update announcements regarding X-12-ARIMA and related software, register with
      http://lists.census.gov/mailman/listinfo/x12a-announce.

Regarding recent modeling research, the article [4] presents a successful new type of regression model for estimating day-of-week effects in stock time series, such as end-of-month inventories. The more recent paper [47] derives regression models for estimating the effects of moving holidays, like Easter, in such data. Further material and references on moving holiday effect modeling and detection can be found in [57] and [49]. The report [48] presents the current state of development of a new class of seasonal time series models for forecasting or seasonally adjusting time series with more heterogeneous seasonal components than classical seasonal ARIMA models can represent.

In the area of model selection, there are two veins of research:

(i) Forecast comparison tests and diagnosics. The article [3] presents two new statistical tests for deciding if one ARIMA model provides better multi-step-ahead forecast performance than another. Both improve upon the widely used Diebold-Mariano test. One replaces the latter test's inconsistent standard error approximation with a consistent estimator. Earlier alternatives to this new test were presented in [62], [22] and [23] without a complete large-sample theory. The other new test goes further by also accounting for the effects of model parameter estimation. The article [9], supplemented by [6], provides supporting theory for X-12-ARIMA's graphical diagnostic for comparing the out-of-sample forecast performance of two not necessarily correct regARIMA models. The article [6] develops asymptotic squared error and error autocovariance formulas for models with underspecified regressors and with ARIMA models for the regression error that might likewise be incorrect. Both for OLS and GLS regression coefficient estimation are covered.

(ii) Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) and related criteria.The article [13] presents the first mathematically complete derivation of AIC for vector autoregressive models as well as a precise concept and measure of data overfitting by a model, together with theory connecting the value of the measure with a corresponding increase in mean square prediction error. The article also establishes the limit formulas (3.6) and (3.7) of [26]. In [26], these formulas are used to show that certain incorrect, non-nested autoregressive model pairs, the two models of which have differing numbers of coefficients whose estimates converge to zero, provide counterexamples to the principal of parameter parsimony and to the frequently encountered statement that consistent model selection criteria like Schwarz's BIC are generally to be preferred over AIC. (There has been confusion regarding statements in [26] about sequences being bounded in probability. The statements concern sequences that are known or shown, e.g. in (3.4), to converge in distribution: it seems not to be widely noted that such convergence implies boundedness in probability, even though this fact follows easily from the definitions.) The Encyclopedia of Statistical Science article [12] reviews the concepts underlying Akaike's minimum AIC criterion at a fairly elementary level and mentions some generalizations. The Statistical Science interview of Akaike [21] details some of his extensive experiences and broad perspectives regarding statistical modeling.

Regarding research on seasonal adjustment and associated diagnostics, the innovations in methodology and diagnostics of the original release of X-12-ARIMA are described in some detail in [18]. More information about its seasonal adjustment stability diagnostics and their connection with accuracy can be found in [28], [32] and [56]. Background on the spectrum diagnostics and other frequency domain diagnostics is given in [55], [58] and [8]. The article [16] illustrates the application to eleven time series of a step-by-step procedure for (i) producing an initial seasonal adjustment with the aid of automatic or default options of X-12-ARIMA; (ii) using the software's diagnostics to determine if its calculated seasonal adjustment (initial or otherwise) is acceptable and, if it is not; (iii) identifying alternative software options to try in order to remedy the problems identified in (ii). In the current version of X-12-ARIMA, the automatic ARIMA modeling modeling command mentioned in [16] now invokes a different automatic modeling procedure, one very closely based on the procedure of the TRAMO-SEATS seasonal adjustment software. Also, the more recently developed WinX12 interface, whose url was given above, can produce most of the diagnostic graphs of the graphics program referred to in [16], X-12-Graph. The latter program is now only available as a batch program, which, in a single run, can produce all specified graphs from a multiple series run of X-12-ARIMA. It can be downloaded from
      http://www.census.gov/srd/www/x12graph/

 

Books

  1. Applied Time Series Analysis II (ed. David F. Findley), New York: Academic Press (1981), 798 pp.

  2. Applied Time Series Analysis (ed. David F. Findley), New York: Academic Press (1978), 344 pp.

 

Journal and Special Volume Publications

  1. McElroy, Tucker S. and David F. Findley (2010). "Selection Between Models Through Multi-Step-Ahead Forecast Error", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140, ???-??? (In press) doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2010.04.032 Preprint available at   http://www.census.gov/srd/papers/pdf/rrs2010-01.pdf

  2. Findley, David F. and Brian C. Monsell (2009). "Modeling Stock Trading Day Effects Under Flow Day-of-Week Constraints", Journal of Official Statistics, 25, 415-430. Available at   http://www.jos.nu/Articles/abstract.asp?article=253415

  3. Chen, Baoline and David F. Findley (2008). Book Review of "Benchmarking, Temporal Distribution, and Reconciliation Methods for Time Series" by Estela Bee Dagum and Pierre A. Cholette, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, 1707-8. Preprint available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/jasabookreviewofdagumcholette.pdf

  4. Findley, David F. (2007). "Optimality of GLS for One-Step-Ahead Forecasting with RegARIMA and Related Models when the Regression is Misspecified", Econometric Theory, 23, 1083-1107. Preprint available at http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/et1691r2mod.pdf

  5. Cantor, James L. and David F. Findley (2007). "Recursive Estimation of Possibly Misspecified MA(1) Models: Convergence of a General Algorithm", in "Time Series and Related Topics: In Memory of Ching Zong Wei" (eds. Hwai-Chung Ho, Ching-Kang Ing, and Tze-Leung Lai), IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, Volume 52, 20-47. Cleveland: Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

  6. Findley, David F. and Donald E. K. Martin (2006). "Frequency Domain Analyses of SEATS and X-11/12-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment Filters for Short and Moderate-Length Time Series", Journal of Official Statistics, 22, 1-34. Available at
      http://www.jos.nu/Articles/abstract.asp?article=221001

  7. Findley, David F. (2005a). "Asymptotic Stationarity Properties of Out-of-Sample Forecast Errors of Misspecified RegARIMA Models", Statistica Sinica, 15, 447-476. Available at   http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/oldpdf/A15n28.pdf

  8. Findley, David F. (2005b). "Convergence of a Robbins-Monro Algorithm for Recursive Estimation with Non-Monotone Weights for a Function with a Restricted Domain and Multiple Zeroes", Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, 56, 1-16.

  9. Findley, David F. (2005c). "Some Recent Developments and Directions in Seasonal Adjustment", Journal of Official Statistics, 21, 343-365 (Invited paper for the JOS 20th Anniversary Volume). Available at   http://www.jos.nu/Articles/abstract.asp?article=212343

  10. Findley, David F., Kellie C. Wills and Brian C. Monsell (2004)."Seasonal Adjustment Perspectives on Damping Seasonal Factors: Shrinkage Estimators for the X-12-ARIMA Program", International Journal of Forecasting, 20, 551-556.

  11. Findley, David F. and Ching-Zong Wei (2002). "AIC, Overfitting Principles, and the Boundedness of Moments of Inverse Matrices for Autoregressions and Related Models", Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 83, 415-450.

  12. Findley, David F., Benedikt M. Pötscher and Ching-Zong Wei (2004). "Modeling of Time Series Arrays by Multistep Prediction or Likelihood Methods", Journal of Econometrics, 118, 151-187.

  13. Findley, David F., Benedikt M. Pötscher and Ching-Zong Wei (2001). "Uniform Convergence of Sample Second Moments of Families of Time Series Arrays", Annals of Statistics, 29, 815-838.

  14. Findley, David F. and Catherine C. Hood (2000). "X-12-ARIMA and Its Application to Some Italian Indicator Series" in Seasonal Adjustment Procedures - Experiences and Perspectives, Annali di Statistica Anno 129 Serie X - Vol. 20, 249-269. Rome: Istituto Nazionali di Statistica. Preprint available at   http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/x12istat.pdf

  15. Findley, David F. (1999)."AIC (Akaike's Information Criterion)" in Encyclopedia of Statistical Science (eds. S. Kotz, C.R. Read, and D. L. Banks), Update Volume 3, 2-6. New York: Wiley. Also available at
     http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/findleyessvol3aic.pdf

  16. Findley, David F., Brian C. Monsell, William R. Bell, Mark C. Otto and Bor-Chung Chen (1998). "New Capabilities and Methods of the X-12-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment Program", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 16 (1998), 127-177 (with discussion). The 1996 JBES Invited Paper. Preprint at  http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/oldpdf/A3n213.pdf
  17. David F. Findley (1996). "Comment on 'Is Seasonal Adjustment a Linear or Nonlinear Data Filtering Process' by Ghysels, Granger, and Siklos", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 14, 389-393.

  18. Findley, David F. (1995). Book Review of "Time Series: Forecasting, Simulation, Applications" by G. Janacek and L. Swift", SIAM Review, 37, 253-257.

  19. Findley, David F. and Emmanuel Parzen (1995). "A Conversation with Hirotugu Akaike", Statistical Science, 10, 104-117. Available at   http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/akaikeconversation.pdf

  20. Findley, David F. and Ching-Zong Wei (1993). "Moment Bounds for Deriving Time Series CLT's and Model Selection Procedures", Statistica Sinica, 3, 453-480. paper">http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/oldpdf/A3n213.pdf

  21. Findley, David F. (1993). "Convergence of Finite Multistep Predictors from Incorrect Models and Its Role in Model Selection", Note di Matematica, 11, 145-155. (Invited paper for a special memorial issue honoring my Doktorvater, Professor Gottfried Köthe). Preprint at   http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/convergence.pdf

  22. Findley, David F. (1993). "Comments on 'Dynamic Linear Models for Time Series Components' by Dagum and Quenneville", Journal of Econometrics, 85 (1993), 353-356.

  23. Findley, David F. (1992). "Comparing Non-Tested, Misspecified Models", Theory of Probability and Its Applications, 37, 342-351 (in Russian).

  24. Findley, David F. (1991). "Counterexamples to Parsimony and BIC", Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 43 (1991), 509-514. Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/counterexamples.pdf

  25. Findley, David F. and Brian C. Monsell (1990). "Comments on STL", Journal of Official Statistics, 6, 55-59.

  26. Findley, David F., Brian C. Monsell, Holly B. Shulman and Marian G. Pugh (1990). "The Sliding Spans Diagnostics for Seasonal and Related Adjustments" (with Brian Monsell, Holly Shulman, and Marian Pugh), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85, 345-355. Preprint at   http://www.census.gov/srd/papers/pdf/rr86-18.pdf

  27. Pugh, Marian G. and David F. Findley (1989). "Review of PC SCA-UTS", The American Statistician, 43, 63-66.

  28. Findley, David F. (1988). "The Limited Existence of α-Derivatives with α > 1", Revista Columbiana de Matematicás, XXII, 49-50.

  29. Findley, David F. (1986). "The Uniqueness of Moving Average Representations with Independent and Identically Distributed Random Variables for Non-Gaussian Stationary Time Series", Biometrika, 73, 520-521. Amendment Biometrika, 77 (1990), 235.

  30. Findley, David F. and Brian C. Monsell (1986). "New Techniques for Determining if a Time Series Can Be Seasonally Adjusted Reliably", in Regional Econometric Modeling, (eds. M. R. Perryman and J. R. Schmidt), 195-228 Amsterdam: Kluwer-Nijhoff. Preprint at   http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/rr84-30.pdf

  31. Findley, David F. (1985a). "On the Derivation of AIC for Exact or Approximating ARMA Models", Journal of Time Series Analysis, 6, 229-252.

  32. Findley, David F. (1985b). "On Backshift-Operator Polynomial Transformations to Stationary for Nonstationary Time Series and Their Aggregates", Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 14, 49-62.

  33. Findley, David F. (1984a). "Semidifferential Calculus", Collectanea Mathematica, 35, 243-265.

  34. Findley, David F. (1984b). "On the Mean Square Convergence of the Convolution Representation of Linear Filters", Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 13, 1073-1087.

  35. Findley, David F. (1984c). "On Ambiguities Associated with the ARMA Modeling of Time Series", Journal of Time Series Analysis, 5, 213-225. Also available at   http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/findley1984jtsa.pdf

  36. Findley, David F. (1983a). "Comments on: 'Comparative Study of BAYSEA and X-11 Seasonal Adjustment Procedures' by H. Akaike and M. Ishiguro", in Applied Time Series Analysis of Economic Data (ed. A. Zellner), 36-45.

  37. Findley, David F. (1983b). "Comments on the Paper of Harvey and Todd", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 1, 309-311.

  38. Findley, David F. (1983c). "On a Special Property of the Expected Log Likelihood", Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 11:21, 2379-2387.

  39. Findley, David F. (1975). "Polyhomogenous Maps and Best Local Approximations of Degree α", Manuscripta Mathematica, 15 (1975), 1-31.

  40. Findley, David F. (1974a). "The Inverses of a Non-Decreasing Function", Rend. Circ. Math. Palermo Series II, XXIII, 18-24.

  41. Findley, David F. (1974b). "Differentiable Paths in Topological Vector Spaces", Revista Colombiana de Mathematicas, VIII, 18-24.

  42. Findley, David F. (1973a). "The Generalized Theory of Perfect Reisz Spaces II", Collectanea Mathematica, XXIV, 101-114.

  43. Findley, David F. (1973b). "The Generalized Theory of Perfect Reisz Spaces I", Collectanea Mathematica, XXIV, 85-100.

 

Selected Conference Proceedings Papers and Research Reports

  1. McDonald-Johnson, Kathleen M., David F. Findley, and Erica Cepietz (2009). "Investigating Quarterly Trading Day Effects", 2009 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association [CD], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/jsm09kmj.pdf

  2. Findley, David F. (2009). "Stock Series Holiday Regressors Generated By Flow Series Holiday Regressors", Statistical Research Division Research Report Series (Statistics #2009-04), U.S. Census Bureau. Available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/rrs2009-04.pdf

  3. Aston, John A. D., David F. Findley, Tucker S. McElroy, Kellie C. Wills, and Donald E. K. Martin (2007). "New ARIMA Models for Seasonal Time Series and Their Application to Seasonal Adjustment and Forecasting", Statistical Research Division Research Report Series (Statistics #2007-14), U.S. Census Bureau. Available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/rrs2007-14.pdf

  4. Findley, David F., Kellie C. Wills, and Brian C. Monsell (2005). "Issues in Estimating Easter Regressors Using RegARIMA Models with X-12-ARIMA", 2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association [CD], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/jsm2005bcm.pdf

  5. Findley, David F., Tucker S. McElroy and Kellie C. Wills (2004). "Modifications of SEATS' Diagnostic for Detecting Over- or Underestimation of Seasonal Adjustment Decomposition Components", 2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association [CD], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/findleymcelroywills2005.pdf

  6. Hood, Catherine C. H. and David F. Findley (2003). "Comparing Direct and Indirect Seasonal Adjustments of Aggregate Series" in Seasonal Adjustment (eds. Michele Manna and Romana Peronaci), 9-22. Frankfurt: European Central Bank. Book available at   www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/statseasonaladjustmenten.pdf

  7. Findley, D. F., K. C. Wills, J. A. Aston, R. M. Feldpausch, and C. C. Hood (2003). "Diagnostics for ARIMA-Model-Based Seasonal Adjustment", 2003 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association [CD], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/jsm2003dff.pdf

  8. Findley, David F., Donald E. K. Martin and Kellie C. Wills (2002). "Generalizations of the Box-Jenkins Airline Model", 2002 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association [CD], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
    Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/findleymartinwills2002.pdf

  9. Findley, David F. (2001). "Discussion of Session 14: Trend Estimation" in ICES II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Establishment Surveys, 809-812, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

  10. Soukup, Raymond J. and David F. Findley (2001). "Detection and Modeling of Trading Day Effects", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Establishment Surveys, 743--753, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/ices00_td.pdf

  11. Hood, Catherine C., Ashley, James D. and Findley, David F. (2000). "An Empirical Evaluation of TRAMO/SEATS on Simulated Series", 2000 Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 171-176, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/asa00_ts.pdf

  12. Findley, David F. and Raymond J. Soukup (2000). "Modeling and Model Selection for Moving Holidays", 2000 Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 102-107, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/asa00_eas.pdf

  13. Soukup, Raymond J. and David F. Findley (1999). "On the Spectrum Diagnostics Used by X-12-ARIMA to Indicate the Presence of Trading Day Effects after Modeling or Adjustment", 1999 Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, 144-149, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/rr9903s.pdf

  14. Chen, Bor-Chung and David F. Findley (1995). "Comparison of X-11 and RegARIMA Easter Holiday Adjustments", 1995 Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, 274- 279, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

  15. Findley, David F. and Bor-Chung Chen (1993). "Multiplicative Trading Day Adjustments: X-11 and RegARIMA Compared" (with B.-C. Chen), 1993 Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, 220-225, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

  16. Findley, David. F. and Brian C. Monsell (1991). "Reg-ARIMA Based Preprocessing for Seasonal Adjustment", in On Analysis of Data in Time (eds. A. C. Singh and P. Whitridge), Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 117-125.

  17. Findley, David F. (1990). "Making difficult model comparisons", SRD Research Report No. RR90/11, U.S. Census Bureau. Statistical Research Division Research Report Series Research Report #90-11, U.S. Census Bureau. Available at  http://www.census.gov/srd/papers/pdf/rr90-11.pdf5

  18. Findley, David F., Brian C. Monsell, Mark C. Otto, William R. Bell, and Marian G. Pugh (1988). "Toward X-12-ARIMA", in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Research Conference, 591-623, U.S. Census Bureau.

  19. Findley, David F. (1988). "An Analysis of AIC for Linear Stochastic Regression and Control", in Proceedings of the 1988 American Control Conference, 1281-1288 (Invited paper).

  20. Findley, David F. (1985a). "On the Use of the Bootstrap to Estimate Mean Square Forecast Error", 17th Symposium on the Interface (ed. David M. Allen), 11-18 (Invited paper). Also available at  http://www.census.gov/ts/papers/findley1986bootstrap.pdf

  21. Findley, David F. (1985b). "On the Use of Multiple Models for Multi-Period Forecasting", Proceedings of the 7th IFAC/IFORS Symposium, 1039-1044, Pergamon Press (Invited paper).

  22. Findley, David F. (1985c). "A General Analysis of Watson's Minimax Procedure for Component Model Selection in Nonstationary ARMA Model-Based Seasonal Adjustment", Statistical Research Division Research Report Series Research Report #85-10, U.S. Census Bureau. Available at  http://www.census.gov/srd/papers/pdf/rr85-10.pdf5

  23. Findley, David F. (1981). "Geometrical and Lattice Versions of Levinson's General Algorithm", in Applied Time Series Analysis II, New York: Academic Press, 327-354.

  24. Findley, David F. (1980). "Large Sample Behavior of the S-Array of Seasonally Non-Stationary ARMA Series", in Time Series Analysis (eds. O. D. Anderson and M. R. Perryman), Amsterdam: North Holland, 163-170.

 

Online Sites with Related Publications

U. S. Census Bureau's Seasonal Adjustment Papers Site
      http://www.census.gov/srd/www/sapaper/sapaper.html

Historical Papers Concerning X-11 Seasonal Adjustment Papers Site
      http://www.census.gov/srd/www/sapaper/historicpapers.html

David Findley's Papers on the Statistical Research Division Research Reports Site
      http://www.census.gov/srd/www/byname.html#findleydavidf