An evaluation of alternative forecasting methods to recreation visitation

Journal of Leisure Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 441-454

  Chen, Rachel J C ^a   Bloomfield, Peter ^b   Fu, Joshua S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean absolute percentage error; Root mean square percentage error

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SEASONALITY; ZOO;

MILWAUKEE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 1842783292     PISSN: 00222216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222216.2003.11950005     Document Type: Article

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