Bayesian forecasting of immigration to selected European countries by using expert knowledge

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 775-796

  Bijak, Jakub ^a,b   Wiśniowski, Arkadiusz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Central European Forum for Migration and Population Research (CEFMR)   (Poland)

^c WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bayesian forecasts; Delphi method; Expert knowledge; Immigration; Model selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956802446     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00635.x     Document Type: Article

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