Measuring Business Cycles

15 cycles Amplitude of Specific analysis annual data arithmetic mean Average deviation Average Duration Bituminous Coal business cycles Call money rates Chart column computed corresponding cyclical behavior cyclical measures cyclical movements cyclical patterns cyclical turns decline Deflated clearings Downswings economic erratic movements expansions and contractions Freight car orders full cycles inverted July June leads or lags List of Cycles method Middle Last monthly data moving averages periods covered Pig iron production quarterly Railroad bond yields Railroad stock prices random rates of change ratio Raw and Smoothed raw data reference contractions reference cycles reference dates reference expansions reference peaks reference troughs Rise & fall Rise Fall seasonal index seasonal variations seasonally adjusted secular trend Seven American Series Shares traded Six American Series smoothed data specific cycles specific-cycle relatives statistical Table R1 third third third Trend-adjusted Data unadjusted data United Upswings