Forecasting aggregate demand: Analytical comparison of top-down and bottom-up approaches in a multivariate exponential smoothing framework

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 185-198

  Sbrana, Giacomo ^a   Silvestrini, Andrea ^b  

^a NEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b BANK OF ITALY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bottom up forecasting; Multivariate exponential smoothing; Top down forecasting

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; BOTTOM UP APPROACH; EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING; FORECASTING ACCURACY; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; PARAMETRIC STRUCTURE; TOPDOWN;

FORECASTING;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84885177863     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2013.06.022     Document Type: Article

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