In the last decade's intensive study of all sorts of social and economic time series, it has become clear, it seems to me, that the usual time series technique is not quite adequate for the purpose which the social investigator is pursuing... We want to find out on more or less empirical grounds what is actually present in the series at hand, that is to say, what sort of components the series contains.


Ragnar Frisch, "A method of decomposing an empirical series into its cyclical and progressive components." Journal of the American Statistical Association 26.173A (1931): 73-78.

Ragnar Frisch Quotes

In the last decade's intensive study of all sorts of social and economic time series, it has become clear, it seems to me, that the usual time series ...

In the last decade's intensive study of all sorts of social and economic time series, it has become clear, it seems to me, that the usual time series ...

In the last decade's intensive study of all sorts of social and economic time series, it has become clear, it seems to me, that the usual time series ...

In the last decade's intensive study of all sorts of social and economic time series, it has become clear, it seems to me, that the usual time series ...