A Real-Time Property Value Index Based on Web Data

Data Mining Applications with R

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 273-297

  Barcena M J ^a   Menendez P ^b   Palacios, M B ^c   Tusell, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; Housing prices; Price indices; Semiparametric models

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; HOUSE PRICES; HOUSING PRICES; NEW APPROACHES; PRICE INDEX; REAL ESTATE AGENTS; REAL-TIME PROPERTIES; SEMIPARAMETRIC MODELS;

HOUSING;

EID: 84902703002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-411511-8.00010-4     Document Type: Chapter

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