Case Study in Evaluating Time Series Prediction Models Using the Relative Mean Absolute Error

American Statistician

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 285-292

  Reich, Nicholas G ^a   Lessler, Justin ^a   Sakrejda, Krzysztof ^a   Lauer, Stephen A ^a   Iamsirithaworn, Sopon ^a   Cummings, Derek A T ^a  

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Author keywords

Accuracy; Forecasting; Infectious disease; Prediction; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981731393     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1148631     Document Type: Article

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