Dancing with bulls and bears: Nearest-neighbour forecasts for the Nikkei index

Japan and the World Economy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 395-413

  Fernández Rodríguez, Fernando ^a   Sosvilla Rivero, Simón ^b   Dolores García Artiles, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

C53; G15; Nearest neighbour prediction methods; Stock market

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033209146     PISSN: 09221425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0922-1425(98)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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