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Unobserved components model Model

State-space decomposition that separates a macro series into latent trend, cycle, seasonal, and irregular components.

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    Harvey (1985) introduced the structural time-series model and showed how to cast it in state-space form for Kalman filter estimation.

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    Harvey (1989) provided the definitive textbook treatment: local-level, local-linear-trend, cycle, and trigonometric seasonal components with full MLE methodology.

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    Clark (1987) decomposed U.S. GDP into trend and cycle using a bivariate UCM, producing one of the first model-based output-gap estimates.

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    Watson (1986) analyzed the identification and estimation of the UC-trend model and its relationship to the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition.

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    Durbin and Koopman (2012) gave a modern treatment covering diffuse initialization, simulation smoothing, and diagnostics for state-space models.

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    Morley, Nelson, and Zivot (2003) demonstrated that allowing correlated trend-cycle disturbances in the UCM reverses the standard finding about the relative importance of permanent versus transitory shocks.

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    Commandeur and Koopman (2007) provided a practical introduction to structural time-series analysis with worked examples in SsfPack and STAMP.

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