Bayesian models for tourism demand forecasting

Tourism Management

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 773-780

  Wong, Kevin K F ^a   Song, Haiyan ^a   Chon, Kaye S ^a  

^a THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Forecasting performance; Over parameterization; Vector autoregressive process

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; MODEL; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 33745865175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2005.05.017     Document Type: Article

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