The Difference Between Cross-Sectional Analysis and Time Series Analysis Cross-sectional analysis is one of the two overarching comparison methods for stock analysis.

Although cross-sectional data is seen as the opposite of time series, the two are often used together in practice. Understanding Time Series A time series can be taken on any variable that changes ...

This paper investigates data structures and missing data patterns in the cross-sectional time series framework, reviews missing value imputation techniques used for micro data in official statistics, ...

Methods: Our data source was the Drug Shortages Canada Database, which reports shortages by drug product, including shortage start and duration. Using a cross-sectional design, we tracked shortage ...

While much of the accounting literature studies settings in which variables are cross-sectionally and serially correlated, we find that the extant methods are not robust to both forms of dependence.