Forecasting multivariate road traffic flows using bayesian dynamic graphical models, splines and other traffic variables

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 69-86

  Anacleto, Osvaldo ^a,b   Queen, Catriona ^b   Albers, Casper J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cubic splines; Dynamic linear model; Headway; Linear multiregression dynamic model; Occupancy; Speed; State space models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879574761     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anzs.12026     Document Type: Article

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