Time series forecasting with neural networks: A comparative study using the airline data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-250

  Faraway, Julian ^a   Chatfield, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airline model; Akaike information criterion; Autoregressive integrated moving average model; Bayesian information criterion; Box Jenkins forecasting; Generalized additive model; Holt Winters forecasting; Projection pursuit regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039988139     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00109     Document Type: Article

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