Improving forecasting accuracy of project earned value metrics: Linear modeling approach

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 135-145

  Chen, Hong Long ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Costs; Financial factors; Forecasting; Linear analysis; Performance; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894462583     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000187     Document Type: Article

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