Ordinal relationships between measures of the “accuracy and “value” of probability forecasts: preliminary results

Allan H. Murphy

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v24i6.10680

Ordinal relationships between measures of the “accuracy and “value” of probability forecasts: preliminary results

Tellus

Volume 24 (1972): Issue 6

By: Allan H. Murphy

Open Access

|Jan 1972

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