Garczarek, UrsulaWeihs, Claus2004-12-062004-12-062002http://hdl.handle.net/2003/506610.17877/DE290R-14545We present a descriptive analysis of stylized facts for the German business cycle. We demonstrate that simple ad-hoc instructions for identifying univariate rules characterizing the German business cycle 1955-1994 lead to an error rate comparable to standard multivariate methods.enUniversitätsbibliothek Dortmunddescriptive analysisparallel box plotsmultivariate classificationunivariate rulesbusiness cycle310Univariate Characterization of the German Business Cycle 1955-1994report