-rate method ever devised for early-design-stage tender price forecasts. However, the method is seldom used in practice partly … empirical values of the weightings are derived by multivariate regression analysis. A set of 50 completed Hong Kong private … inclusion in the model is identified by means of a dual stepwise cross validation regression procedure - resulting in a …

new data and secondly to advance his method by using regression techniques to obtain the weights involved. Based on data … from 138 completed Hong Kong projects for four types of building, two types of regression models were developed. This … involved the use of sophisticated features such as leave-one-out cross validation to simulate the way in which forecasts are …

been introduced in kernel regression. They differ quite a bit, and although there already exist more selection methods than … for any other regression smoother we can still see coming up new ones. Given the need of automatic data-driven bandwidth …