EDDIE beats the bookies

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1033-1043

  Tsang, Edward P K ^a   Li, Jin ^a   Butler, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Reuters   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finance; Forecasting; Genetic programming; Horse racing; Investment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; FINANCE; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING; HORSE RACING; INVESTMENT;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0032142079     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199808)28:10<1033::AID-SPE198>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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