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test for seasonality

Postby christine » Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:44 am

Dear all,

I've just created my account on this forum. It is extremely interesting.
I'm working on my final paper and i have a question. I hope you can help me regarding seasonality. How can I test whether my time series are seasonal or not? I know that I should use TramoSeats, ARIMA, etc for seasonal adjustments, but i wanna know if there is any method to test for seasonality (WITH THE EXCEPTION of the graphic method), not for adjustments. For example, taking the case of Consumer price index, looking at the graphic I cannot tell whether it is seasonal or not. But when I compute TramoSeats for instance, it works. I mean Eviews does adjust my series.

Thanks,

Best wishes,

Christine

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Re: test for seasonality

Postby startz » Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:06 pm

christine wrote:Dear all,

I've just created my account on this forum. It is extremely interesting.
I'm working on my final paper and i have a question. I hope you can help me regarding seasonality. How can I test whether my time series are seasonal or not? I know that I should use TramoSeats, ARIMA, etc for seasonal adjustments, but i wanna know if there is any method to test for seasonality (WITH THE EXCEPTION of the graphic method), not for adjustments. For example, taking the case of Consumer price index, looking at the graphic I cannot tell whether it is seasonal or not. But when I compute TramoSeats for instance, it works. I mean Eviews does adjust my series.

Thanks,

Best wishes,

Christine

One method is to regress the series on dummies for each season and ask if they are significantly different.

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Re: test for seasonality

Postby trubador » Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:31 pm

Seasonality is a complicated subject and there are numerous different tests are available for the detection. As Startz said, the simplest way is to regress your dependent variable against seasonal dummies. For monthly data you can do the following in your equation object:

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y @seas(1) @seas(2) @seas(3) @seas(4) @seas(5) @seas(6) @seas(7) @seas(8) @seas(9) @seas(10) @seas(11) @seas(12)


Significant coefficient values will mean that you have deterministic and stable seasonality in those periods.

Another way is to check the report generated by Census X12 procedure when you run the seasonal adjustment. In that rich report, you will find the results of the tests for both stable and moving seasonality. You can also find test results for the presence of residual seasonality.

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Re: test for seasonality

Postby flourence » Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:19 am

what if I dont have ind and dep. variable . only my data . can i use the code :
y = own_use @seas(1) @seas(2) @seas(3) @seas(4) @seas(5) @seas(6) @seas(7) @seas(8) @seas(9) @seas(10) @seas(11) @seas(12) where own use is my data and y is the name of my file ?? ty

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Re: test for seasonality

Postby flourence » Wed Nov 29, 2017 1:09 am

After browsing in how to detect seasonality in data i found out that if your AC in correlogram shows up and down movement repeatedly it shows seasonality . Example is this. Can someone verify this
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