Forecasting a collection of binomial proportions in the presence of covariates

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-15

  Stroud, T W F ^a   Sykes, Alan M ^b   Witt, Stephen F ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

APL; Bayesian methods; Brooks approximation; Conference tourism forecasting; Hierarchical Bayes; Iteratively reweighted least squares; Logit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039503988     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(97)00032-0     Document Type: Article

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