Chapter 3 Forecast Evaluation

Handbook of Economic Forecasting

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 99-134

  West, Kenneth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

asymptotic irrelevance; forecast; forecast error; hypothesis test; inference; out of sample; parameter estimation error; prediction; prediction error

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649370938     PISSN: 15740706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0706(05)01003-7     Document Type: Review

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