Forecasting the agricultural structure using empirical transition matrices

Daniel Thorburn

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 1980, vol. 7, issue 4, 413-432

Abstract: Summary This article gives a description of a technique used to forecast the agricultural structure. Different models for estimating the number of new farms are considered. The standard deviation of the prediction error can be derived if the state of the farms can be described by independent and identically distributed Markov chains. The technique is applied to data for all Swedish farms and the forecasts are compared to the actual values after a period of three years. The assumptions of the model and its relation to economic theory and to other forecasting techniques are discussed.

Date: 1980
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