Forecasting China's annual biofuel production using an improved grey model

Energies

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 12080-12099

  Geng, Nana ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Sun, Yixiang ^b   Jiang, Yunjian ^a   Chen, Dandan ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Biofuel production; Combination forecast; Fuzzy set theory; Grey model; Markov model

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; FUZZY SETS; MARKOV PROCESSES; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; COMBINATION FORECAST; FUZZY PREDICTION MODEL; GOVERNMENTAL POLICIES; GREY MODEL; GREY PREDICTION MODEL; MARKOV MODEL; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 84946020764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en81012080     Document Type: Article

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