COVID-19 hit the economy in an unprecedented way, changing the data generating process of many series. We compare different seasonal adjustment methods through simulations, introducing outliers in the trend and seasonality to reproduce the heterogeneity in the series during COVID-19.
Keywords: COVID-19; CiSSA; Deseasonalizing; Outlier; X-13ARIMA-SEATS.
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