Spatial bayesian methods of forecasting house prices in six metropolitan areas of South Africa

South African Journal of Economics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 298-313

  Gupta, Rangan ^a   Das, Sonali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

BVAR forecasts; BVAR model; Forecast accuracy; SBVAR forecasts; SBVAR model; VAR forecasts; VAR model

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; HOUSING MARKET; METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DETERMINATION; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 48249122049     PISSN: 00382280     EISSN: 18136982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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