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A note on the measurement of accuracy for subnational demographic estimates

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  • David Swanson
  • Jeff Tayman
  • Charles Barr

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  • David Swanson & Jeff Tayman & Charles Barr, 2000. "A note on the measurement of accuracy for subnational demographic estimates," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 37(2), pages 193-201, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:demogr:v:37:y:2000:i:2:p:193-201
    DOI: 10.2307/2648121
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    2. Stefan Rayer, 2007. "Population forecast accuracy: does the choice of summary measure of error matter?," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 26(2), pages 163-184, April.
    3. Meng Xu & Helge Brunborg & Joel E. Cohen, 2017. "Evaluating multi-regional population projections with Taylor’s law of mean–variance scaling and its generalisation," Journal of Population Research, Springer, vol. 34(1), pages 79-99, March.
    4. Louie Ren & Yong Glasure, 2009. "Applicability of the Revised Mean Absolute Percentage Errors (MAPE) Approach to Some Popular Normal and Non-normal Independent Time Series," International Advances in Economic Research, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 15(4), pages 409-420, November.
    5. Herman O. Stekler, 2008. "Evaluating Consensus Forecasts," Working Papers 2008-007, The George Washington University, Department of Economics, H. O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting.
    6. David Swanson & George Hough, 2012. "An Evaluation of Persons per Household (PPH) Estimates Generated by the American Community Survey: A Demographic Perspective," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 31(2), pages 235-266, April.
    7. Jack Baker & David Swanson & Jeff Tayman, 2023. "Boosted Regression Trees for Small-Area Population Forecasting," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 42(4), pages 1-24, August.
    8. David A. Swanson, 2015. "On the Relationship among Values of the Same Summary Measure of Error when it is used across Multiple Characteristics at the Same Point in Time: An Examination of MALPE and MAPE," Review of Economics & Finance, Better Advances Press, Canada, vol. 5, pages 1-14, August.
    9. Ji Wu & Xian Cheng & Stephen Shaoyi Liao, 2020. "Tourism forecast combination using the stochastic frontier analysis technique," Tourism Economics, , vol. 26(7), pages 1086-1107, November.
    10. Spiliotis, Evangelos & Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos & Assimakopoulos, Vassilios, 2019. "Tales from tails: On the empirical distributions of forecasting errors and their implication to risk," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 35(2), pages 687-698.
    11. Hyndman, Rob J. & Koehler, Anne B., 2006. "Another look at measures of forecast accuracy," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 22(4), pages 679-688.
    12. George Hough & David Swanson, 2006. "An evaluation of the American Community Survey: results from the Oregon test site," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 25(3), pages 257-273, June.
    13. David A. Swanson & Jeff Tayman & T.M. Bryan, 2018. "A Note on Rescaling the Arithmetic Mean for Right-skewed Positive Distributions," Review of Economics & Finance, Better Advances Press, Canada, vol. 14, pages 17-24, November.

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