Quarterly real GDP estimates for China and ASEAN4 with a forecast evaluation

Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 431-447

  Abeysinghe, Tilak ^a   Rajaguru, Gulasekaran ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chow Lin procedure; First difference method; Forecast performance; Growth rate method; Output linkages; Univariate disaggregation

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CHOW-LIN PROCEDURE; FIRST-DIFFERENCE METHOD; FORECAST PERFORMANCE; GROWTH-RATE METHOD; OUTPUT LINKGAES; UNIVARIATE DISAGGREGATION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 4744375382     PISSN: 02776693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/for.922     Document Type: Article

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