“…However, the commencement of SSA is usually associated with publications of the papers by King (1986a,1986b) and Fraedrich (1986), Vautard and Ghil (1989), Vautard et al (1992) and Allen and Smith (1996). A through review of SSA for analysis and forecasting economic and financial time series is given in Hassani and Thomakos (2010), and two new versions of SSA, based on the minimum variance estimator and perturbation theory, have been introduced in Hassani (2010) and Hassani et al (2011). For comparison of the SSA with classical methods, ARIMA, ARAR algorithm, GARCH and Holt-Winters, see Hassani et al (2009aHassani et al ( ,2009b, Hassani (2007); Patterson et al (2010) and Hassani and Zhigljavsky (2009).…”