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We are pleased to publish one of the winning papers of the 2017 IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians (YSP). It is written by Andreas Mayer (Australia). It carries the title Improving Seasonal Adjustment by Accounting for Sample Error Correlation Using State Space Models.

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