Forecasting US employment growth using forecast combining methods

Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-93

  Rapach, David E ^a   Strauss, Jack K ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregressive distributed lag model; Combination forecast; Mean square forecast error; Principal components

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

MEAN SQUARE FORECAST ERROR (MSFE); POTENTIAL PREDICTORS;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 39349086653     PISSN: 02776693     EISSN: 1099131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/for.1051     Document Type: Article

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