A Note on Aggregation, Disaggregation and Forecasting Performance

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A Note on Aggregation, Disaggregation and Forecasting Performance

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Tobias, Justin
Zellner, Arnold

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In this note the results of an experiment to determine the effects of aggregation and disaggregation in forecasting the median growth rate of eighteen industrialized countries' annual output (GDP) growth rates are reported.

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Paper provided by Iowa State University, Department of Economics in its series Staff General Research Papers with number 12024.

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Date of creation: 27 Aug 2004
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Publication status: Published in Journal of Forecasting, 2000, Vol. 19, pp. 457-469.
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- Zellner, Arnold & Tobias, Justin, 2005. "A Note on Aggregation, Disaggregation and Forecasting Performance," Staff General Research Papers 12371, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
- Zellner, Arnold & Tobias, Justin, 1998. "A note on aggregation, disaggregation and forecasting performance," CUDARE Working Paper Series 869, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy.

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