Nonparametric neural network modeling of hedonic prices in the housing market

Empirical Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 987-1009

  Landajo, Manuel ^a   Bilbao, Celia ^a   Bilbao, Amelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Hedonic prices; Housing; Misspecification testing; Neural networks; Nonparametric methods; Nonparametric significance testing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; MODEL TEST; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84860889916     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-011-0485-9     Document Type: Article

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