Acknowledgments

• Author: Francesca Torti - Marco Riani - Anthony C. Atkinson - Domenico Perrotta - Aldo Corbellini
• Profession: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) - University of Parma, Italy - London School of Economics, UK - European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) - University of Parma, Italy
• Pages: 6-6

Acknowledgments

This work was mainly supported by Administrative Arrangements of the “Automated Monitoring Tool”

project (OLAF-JRC SI2.601156 and SI2.710969), funded under the Hercule III Programme. In OLAF,

we would like to thank in particular Juergen Marke, Nicholas Shaw and Winfried Kleinegris who, since the

early days of AMT, have firmly believed in the idea of estimating trade prices using the Forward Search

and similar data monitoring tools.

A first preliminary version of the SAS macros for the Forward Search were developed in 2016 by Dr

Jos Polifet under the guidance of the authors of this report, in the framework of a consultancy activity

requested by the JRC to SAS Belgium (Hertenbergstraat 6, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium). Compared to the

earlier SAS macros, which are available at https://github.com/JosPolfliet/FSDA-SAS, our new

package contains many enrichments and bug fixes.

The package is now used in the AMT for the routine generation and dissemination of the EU import

prices in THESEUS, and in Web-Ariadne for facilitating the use of robust regression methods by data analysts

and practitioners: the deployment of the SAS macros in the two JRC resources is respectively by Giuseppe

Sgarlata and Emmanuele Sordini.

Authors

Francesca Torti and Domenico Perrotta, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Anthony C. Atkinson, London School of Economics, UK

Aldo Corbellini and Marco Riani, University of Parma, Italy