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SERIES B
Statistical Methodology

Z. Cai, Q. Yao and W. Zhang: Smoothing for discrete-valued time series, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, volume 63 (2001), part 1, pages 357-375

The description of this dataset:

  • The file name for the dataset is hk.dat.
  • The first column is the number of hospital admissions due to circulatory and respiratory problem from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1995.
  • The second column is the level of silfur dioxide.
  • The third column is the level of nitrogen dioxide.
  • The forth column is the level of dust.

The description of the S-CODE: The program used in Example 3 is S-PLUS.

The S-CODE is in the file hk.s. To run this program, just type "source("hk.s")" in the S-PLUS program.

Proofs of theorems 1 and 2 are given in the file proof.pdf. (size 121KB)

If there are any questions, please contact:

Dr. Zongwu Cai
Department of Mathematics
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
NC 28223
U.S.A.

For more information, please visit the web site at http://www.math.uncc.edu/~zcai/

E-mail: zcai@uncc.edu

Dataset (cai.zip 10.5kb)

 

Journals

SERIES A
Statistics in Society

SERIES B
Statistical Methodology

SERIES C
Applied Statistics

SERIES D
The Statistician