Comparing forecast models of Radical Right voting in four European countries (1973-2008)

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-97

  Evans, Jocelyn ^a   Ivaldi, Gilles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IRD Urmis   (France)

Author keywords

Electoral forecast; Evaluating forecasts; Radical Right; Regression; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149091161     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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