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A Newton’s Method for Benchmarking Time Series according to a Growth Rates Preservation Principle
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Di Fonzo, Tommaso | Marini, Marco |
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July 1, 2011 |
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Summary: This work presents a new technique for temporally benchmarking a time series according to the growth rates preservation principle (GRP) by Causey and Trager (1981). A procedure is developed which (i) transforms the original constrained problem into an unconstrained one, and (ii) applies a Newton’s method exploiting the analytic Hessian of the GRP objective function. We show that the proposed technique is easy to implement, computationally robust and efficient, all features which make it a plausible competitor of other benchmarking procedures (Denton, 1971; Dagum and Cholette, 2006) also in a data-production process involving a considerable amount of series.
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Working Paper No. 11/179 |
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Time series |
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Benchmarking | Movement preservation | Linearly equality constrained non-linear optimization | Newton’s method. |
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WPIEA2011179 |
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