Sentence examples for calendar effects from inspiring English sources

That gave China one extra day to produce stuff in the first quarter of 2012 that it didn't have in the first quarter of this year.Many statistical authorities correct for such "calendar effects", or at least call attention to them.

Sales figures for January, released on Tuesday, showed Honda sold 2.9 percent more vehicles in the United States last month than a year earlier, when adjusting for calendar effects.

"Calendar effects" were the most striking: at certain times of the year and on certain days of the week, prices predictably rise (or fall) by more (or less) than on the average day, and the related returns vary correspondingly.One example is the "January effect": shares of small companies beat the market in January.

This suggests that the general imbalance-return links found by previous studies may be partly related to calendar effects.

Thus, liquidity seems to be a major driver behind calendar effects at the level of individual stocks.

The corrected series will differ from the original series if the pre-treatment by TRAMO or regARIMA has detected outliers or calendar effects.

Controlling the confounding factors on respiratory hospitalizations such as long-term trend, meteorological factor, atmospheric pollution, and calendar effect, the research is designed to study the effect of sand-dust weather on respiratory diseases from 2001 to 2005 in Lanzhou City on the basis of the semi-parametric generalized additive model (GAM).

The risk decreases from day 1, remains almost constant from day 2 to 6, and then increases from day 7 to 20. Figure 2 displays the temporal effect as measured by the calendar effect.

Using GLM to test the independent significance of calendar effect, the impacts of Friday-Saturday, bank holiday eves, and the even greater impact of New Year's Eve on increasing assaults were maintained (Table  3).

For example, the calendar effect f(t i ) can be decomposed into time trend f(r i ) and time-varying seasonal component f(s i ), i.e., η i = ⋯ + f (r i ) + f (s i ) + ⋯, In addition, the model can be extended to include interaction surfaces within the varying coefficient framework proposed by Hastie and Tibshirani [ 17].

η i is the unobserved individual fixed effect, θ t captures calendar time effects (flexibly specified as a set of dummy variables for each calendar year) and εi,t is the individual and time-specific error term.