The Incremental Benefits of the Nearest Neighbor Forecast of U.S. Energy Commodity Prices

This thesis compares the simple Autoregressive (AR) model against the k- Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) model to make a point forecast of five energy commodity prices. Those commodities are natural gas, heating oil, gasoline, ethanol, and crude oil. The data for the commodities are monthly and, for each co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kudoyan, Olga
Other Authors: Bryant, Henry L.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8674