Testing for forecast consensus

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 34-43

  Gregory, Allan W ^a   Smith, Gregor W ^a   Yetman, James ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BANK OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kalman filter; Latent variable

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035582610     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/07350010152472599     Document Type: Article

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