Makridakis, Spyros; Winkler, Robert L. - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 9, pp. 987-996
An alternative to using a single forecasting method is to average the forecasts obtained from several methods. In this … paper we investigate empirically the impact of the number and choice of forecasting methods on the accuracy of simple … averages. It is concluded that the forecasting accuracy improves, and that the variability of accuracy among different …