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Eric Ghysels, Clive W. J. Granger, Pierre L. Siklos, Is Seasonal Adjustment a Linear or Nonlinear Data-Filtering Process?, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Jul., 1996), pp. 374-386
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