The influence of trend strength on directional probabilistic currency predictions

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 241-256

  Thomson, Mary E ^a   Önkal Atay, Dilek ^b   Pollock, Andrew C ^c   Macaulay, Alex ^c  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exchange rate; Expertise; Forecasting; Judgement; Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844490312     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(01)00132-7     Document Type: Article

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