Non-stationary demand forecasting by cross-sectional aggregation

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 170, Issue , 2015, Pages 297-309

  Rostami Tabar, Bahman ^a   Babai, Mohamed Zied ^b   Ducq, Yves ^c   Syntetos, Aris ^d  

^a Department of Economics Finance and Accounting   (United Kingdom)

^b KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross sectional aggregation; Demand forecasting; Non stationary processes; Single exponential smoothing

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES;

CROSS-SECTIONAL AGGREGATION; DEMAND FORECASTING; EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING; FORECASTING PERFORMANCE; NON-STATIONARY DEMAND; NON-STATIONARY ENVIRONMENT; NONSTATIONARY PROCESS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84964310755     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.10.001     Document Type: Article

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