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Nowcasting and Forecasting the Monthly Food Stamps Data in the US Using Online Search Data

We propose the use of Google online search data for nowcasting and forecasting the number of food stamps recipients. We perform a large out-of-sample forecasting exercise with almost 3000 competing models with forecast horizons up to 2 years ahead, and we show that models including Google search dat...

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Autor principal: Fantazzini, Dean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4219814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25369315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111894