Another look at measures of forecast accuracy

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 679-688

  Hyndman, Rob J ^a   Koehler, Anne B ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecast accuracy; Forecast error measures; Forecast evaluation; M competition; Mean absolute scaled error

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749517168     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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