Time series analysis of ENR construction cost index

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1227-1237

  Ashuri, Baabak ^a   Lu, Jian ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA); Autoregressive models; Autoregressive moving average models; Construction costs; Seasonal ARIMA; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTO REGRESSIVE MODELS; AUTO-REGRESSIVE INTEGRATED MOVING AVERAGE; AUTO-REGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE MODEL; CONSTRUCTION COSTS; SEASONAL ARIMA;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CONTRACTORS; COSTS; FORECASTING; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958122518     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000231     Document Type: Article

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