Providing support for decisions based on time series information under conditions of asymmetric loss

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 388-402

  Goodwin, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Forecasting; Probability elicitation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MARKETING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MARGINAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL CORRECTION; PROBABILITY ELICITATION;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 10044293094     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2003.10.039     Document Type: Article

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