PREDICTION OF MISSING OBSERVATIONS BY A CONTROL METHOD

Vyacheslav M. Abramov (Australia) and Fima C. Klebaner (Australia)

Received April 30, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: missing observations, autoregressive models, control method, prediction.