The asymmetry of judgemental confidence intervals in time series forecasting

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 623-633

  O'Connor, Marcus ^a   Remus, William ^b   Griggs, Kenneth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Calibration; Confidence intervals; Judgement; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035486249     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(01)00103-0     Document Type: Article

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