Moving window approaches for hedonic price estimation: An empirical comparison of modelling techniques

Urban Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1565-1581

  Páez, Antonio ^a   Long, Fei ^b   Farber, Steven ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b North American Development Group   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; KRIGING; MODELING; NEIGHBORHOOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 45149127477     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098008091491     Document Type: Article

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