Forecasting performance of grey prediction for education expenditure and school enrollment

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 452-462

  Tang, Hui Wen Vivian ^a   Yin, Mu Shang ^b  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HSING WU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

C02; C53; Education expenditure; GM(1,1); GM(1,1) rolling; Grey prediction; I21; School enrollment

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EXPENDITURE; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84860886145     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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