Economic indicators provide important information for the evaluation of the state of the economy of a country and they are used for business cycle analysis. Timeliness of the indicators is of fundamental interest for analysts of government authorities, national banks, politicians or economic...

Time series is a collection of observations made at regular time intervals and its analysis refers to problems in correlations among successive observations. Time series analysis is applied in all areas of statistics but some of the most important include macroeconomic and financial time series....

Large-scale complex surveys typically contain a large number of variables measured on an even larger number of respondents. Missing data is a common problem in such surveys. Since usually most of the variables in a survey are categorical, multiple imputation requires robust methods for modelling...