Forecasting overseas visitors to the UK using continuous time and autoregressive fractional integrated moving average models with discrete data

Tourism Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 835-844

  Nowman, K B ^a   Van Dellen, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ARFIMA; ARIMA; Continuous time; Gaussian estimation; Time series; Tourism forecasting

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOURISM; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84865271936     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2012.0144     Document Type: Article

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