Explorations in specifying construction price forecast loss functions

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 449-465

  Skitmore, Martin ^a   Cheung, Franco K T ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction; Estimate errors; Forecasting; Forecasts; Loss functions; Price; Specification

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONSTRUCTION PRICE FORECASTING; ESTIMATE ERRORS; LOSS FUNCTIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

CONSTRUCTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; PRICE DETERMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

EID: 34249736376     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190600794571     Document Type: Article

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