Demetra+ User Manual Final release Sylwia Grudkowska NBP

Demetra+ User Manual – contents (1) Basic information about Demetra+ Installing and uninstalling the software Running and closing the application Application’s windows Workspace Tools X12 and TS Doc Window menu

Demetra+ User Manual – contents (2) X12 and TS specifications options parameters Defining single-processing and multi-processing X12 and TS results interpretation on the results description of tests Regular data production saving and refreshing results changing the specification

Improvements made since last WG meeting Description of output settings Description of SI ratio Some extension to X12 and TramoSeats specifications (td effects, Easter effect, user-defined regressors and others) Description of seasonality tests (Kruscall-Walis, evaluative seasonality test, combined seasonality test) Some explanations of TramoSeats output Multi-processing - period to period data production periodogram

Areas which could be extended Detailed description of TRAMO/SEATS results: decomposition Wiener-Kolmogorow analysis Multi-processing results menu M-statistics

Possibile improvements Comparison of Demetra+ and Demetra 2.2. Documentations of Excel add-ins Examples data mass-production improvement of problematic time series

Towards SA handbook (?) What should be included in the SA guide? Overview of the SA method Prior knowledge about the series Interpretation on the results Clear reference to ESS guideline on SA Theoretical problems illustrated with step-by-step examples from Demetra+

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