Optimal weights for combining antithetic forecasts

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 371-381

  Ridley, Denis ^a  

^a Florida A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR CORRECTION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANTITHETIC FORECASTS;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031117564     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(96)00296-3     Document Type: Article

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