Aggregating large sets of probabilistic forecasts by weighted coherent adjustment

Decision Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 128-144

  Wang, Guanchun ^a   Kulkarni, Sanjeev R ^a   Poor, H Vincent ^a   Osherson, Daniel N ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining forecasts; Consensus deviation; Incoherence penalty; Judgment aggregation; Weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958859757     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1110.0206     Document Type: Article

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