Answering question as in "
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/strength-of-seasonal-component-td3517033.html
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Possibly your code "MASS::rlm(mean price ~ month)" will result in Spurious
regression; you would make wrong impression of your estimated beta coef. as
in presence of the spurious regression they no longer have t-distribution.
May be you should try with "MASS::rlm(diff(log(mean price)) ~ month)?"

And secondly decomposition using standard approach is some sort of
**deterministic** act therefore, you would not get any measure of "strength"
in Statistical inference sense. To get that, I think above regression
approach would be handy.

HTH

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