In this paper, we propose linear and nonparametric models to predict one month, three months, six months, one year, eighteen months and two years ahead crude oil price in out-of-sample background. Mainly, our forecast depends on three predictor variables, the change in crude oil inventories, its...

Nonmetric unfolding is a powerful (nonparametric) analytical tool generating a preference-based joint display of subjects (e.g., customers) and objects (e.g., brands or products). Systematic patterns in customers' preferences can be directly inferred from this display, and may provide valuable...