Predicting hospital census using time series regression methods
James T. Mc Clave, Ronald G. Marks · Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods · 1977
We first describe the time series modeling problem in a general way. Then some specific assumptions and observations which are pertinent to the application of these models are made. We next propose a specific approach to the modeling problem, one which yields efficient, easily calculated estimators of all parameters (under the stated assumptions). Finally, the technique is applied to the problem of modeling the census of a particular hospital.