Real estate appraisals with Bayesian approach and Markov Chain Hybrid Monte Carlo Method: An application to a central urban area of Naples

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Del Giudice, Vincenzo ^a   De Paola, Pierfrancesco ^a   Forte, Fabiana ^b   Manganelli, Benedetto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Bayesian approach; Hedonic price model; Markov Chain Hybrid Monte Carlo Method; Multiple regression analysis; Penalized Spline Semiparametric Method; Real estate appraisals

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; NAPLES; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA];

EID: 85035012219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9112138     Document Type: Article

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