ALTERNATIVAS METODOLÓGICAS PARA EL EMPALME ESTADÍSTICO DE SERIE TEMPORALES: CASO VENEZUELA 1950-2005.

The intention of this research is to solve the statistical difficulty when statistical economic series are spliced. Therefore, this paper discusses the scope of the various methods of splicing in the literature. Also presents an additional method, which consider a process of maximization for structural interpolation. Since Venezuela does not escape the problem of the statistical joints on its accounts, this work also presents a complete series of gross domestic Product by productive economic activity and by expenditure components, from 1950 until 2005, expressed in base year prices 1997. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]