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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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8674 |