The Ebola contagion and forecasting virus: evidence from four African countries

Health Economics Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Nadhem, Selmi ^a   Nejib, Hachicha D ^a  

^a Department of Quantitative Methods ^*  (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Contagion; Ebola 2014; EGARCH; MGARCH DCC; Virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGRESSIVE CONDITIONAL HETEROSCEDASTICITY MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EGARCH MODEL; FORECASTING; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; LIBERIA; LOCAL WHITTLE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE GARCH DCC MODEL; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIERRA LEONE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84971302121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21911991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13561-015-0047-5     Document Type: Article

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