Forecast combinations for intermittent demand

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 914-924

  Petropoulos, Fotios ^a   Kourentzes, Nikolaos ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

classification; combining; forecasting; intermittent demand; parametric methods; temporal aggregation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); TIME SERIES;

COMBINING; FORECAST COMBINATIONS; FORECASTING PERFORMANCE; INTERMITTENT DEMAND; PARAMETRIC METHOD; STANDARD PRACTICES; TEMPORAL AGGREGATION; TIME SERIES CLASSIFICATIONS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84929118615     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2014.62     Document Type: Article

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