Exponentially weighted methods for forecasting intraday time series with multiple seasonal cycles

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 627-646

  Taylor, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Call centre arrivals; Discount weighted regression; Exponential smoothing; Exponential weighting; Intraday data; Regression splines; Seasonality; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956265820     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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