Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on Tuesday called for the need to change the prevailing mindset of questioning the data methodology. He noted that concerns about data quality arise when ...

This paper shows that the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for regime-switching dynamic factor models provides satisfactory performance relative to other estimation methods and delivers a good ...

Imagine you're cooking a new recipe. You have the ingredients, the instructions and the tools. Yet, as you cook, you run into problems: some ingredients need more prep time, the oven heats unevenly ...

The terms Agile and estimations don't align perfectly. Agile is all about responding to change rather than following a plan, while accurate estimations require a fixed plan that doesn't change. It's a ...

Against the backdrop of persisting concerns in certain quarters about the country’s economic growth figures, Nageswaran ...

This report presents estimates of the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States as of July 2023 and for previous years back to 1990. These estimates supersede all previously published Pew ...

In this course, you will learn how to implement different state-of-health estimation methods and to evaluate their relative merits. Prior knowledge needed: ECEA 5730, ECEA 5731, ECEA 5732, a ...

India’s statistical system does not rely on “questionable methodologies” adopted by some economies, chief economic adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran said on December 23, pushing back against ...

All estimate methodologies have some limitations, but the mindset that India’s methods for estimating GDP are inferior needs to change, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Tuesday.