Intervention and causality: Forecasting traffic flows using a dynamic bayesian network

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 486, 2009, Pages 669-681

  Queen, Catriona M ^a   Albers, Casper J ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic linear model; Multiregression dynamic model; Multivariate time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549102138     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0042     Document Type: Article

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