Combining ordinal forecasts with an application in a financial market

Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-48

  Fan, Dennis K ^a,b   Lau, Kin Nam ^a,c   Leung, Pui Lam ^a,d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining ordinal forecasts; Mathematical programming; Multinomial logit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040464606     PISSN: 02776693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-131X(199601)15:1<37::AID-FOR603>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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