BV4.1 (software)

<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<p>The essential features of the BV4.1 software are:
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<ul><li>System requirements: Windows PC (<a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows_NT/EtccWvxQ">Windows NT 4.0</a>/<a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows_98/6qtq4oJm">Windows 98</a>+).</li>
<li>Support of the file formats <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Excel/Ezal6G75">Excel</a>, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Access/1tID4rKM">ACCESS</a>, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_SQL_Server/eCdt2JBL">SQL Server</a> and <a href="/facts/Comma-separated_values/dv1pSR1r">CSV</a>.</li>
<li>User-friendly graphical user interface.</li>
<li>Analyses of monthly and quarterly time series.</li>
<li>Possibility of mass production of time series decompositions and seasonal adjustments.</li>
<li>Various possibilities of graphic evaluations of analysis results.</li>
<li>Possibility to execute so-called successive analyses, i.e. analyses where the analysis spans are extended gradually by one additional period. This option is useful for examining such revisions of analysis results originating from the BV4.1 procedure itself.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.destatis.de/EN/Methods/TimeSeries/SoftwareBV41.html">Federal Statistical Office's BV4.1 page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.destatis.de/EN/Methods/TimeSeries/TimeSeriesBV41.pdf?__blob=publicationFile">Methodological information about the BV4.1 procedure</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Software for time series analyses according to the BV4.1 method". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 2024-01-05. <a href="https://www.destatis.de/EN/Methods/Seasonal-adjustment/mathematical-statistical-method.html" target="_blank">https://www.destatis.de/EN/Methods/Seasonal-adjustment/mathematical-statistical-method.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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