Robust tests of predictive accuracy

Metron

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 161-184

  Dell'Aquila, Rosario ^a   Ronchetti, Elvezio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Deviations from a model; Forecasting; Influence function; Robustness of power; Robustness of size

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957749124     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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