Predicting people's presence in buildings: An empirically based model performance analysis

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 349-355

  Mahdavi, Ardeshir ^a   Tahmasebi, Farhang ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evaluation statistics; Model evaluation; Non probabilistic methods; Occupancy models; Predictive building systems control; Probabilistic methods

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE BUILDINGS; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

BUILDING PERFORMANCE; BUILDING SYSTEMS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; MODEL EVALUATION; NON-PROBABILISTIC METHODS; OCCUPANCY PREDICTIONS; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; PROBABILISTIC METHODS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84909608014     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.10.027     Document Type: Article

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