Evaluating the forecasting performance of econometric models of air passenger traffic flows using multiple error measures

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 902-922

  Fildes, Robert ^a   Wei, Yingqi ^b   Ismail, Suzilah ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Airline traffic; Comparative forecasting accuracy; Econometric model building; Pooled cross section time series; Replication; Time varying parameter

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956347178     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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