Project cost estimation using principal component regression

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 295-304

  Chan, Swee Lean ^a   Park, Moonseo ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Factors; Principal component regression model; Project cost

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; FINANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DEGREE OF CORRELATIONS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTS; PROJECT COSTS; RANDOM SAMPLE SUPPLY;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 16444363248     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190500039812     Document Type: Article

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