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20232026
most citedOperational Research: Methods and Applications

120 citations

7 papers

stat.AP2026

Forecasting the Evolving Composition of Inbound Tourism Demand: A Bayesian Compositional Time Series Approach Using Platform Booking Data

Harrison Katz

Understanding how the composition of guest origin markets evolves over time is critical for destination marketing organizations, hospitality businesses, and tourism planners. We de…

stat.ME2025

Centered-Innovation MA for Bayesian Dirichlet ARMA: Theoretical Equivalence and an Application to Bank-Asset Shares

Harrison Katz

We study a minimal change to an observation-driven Bayesian Dirichlet ARMA (B--DARMA) for compositional time series: replace the raw additive log-ratio (ALR) residual in the moving…

q-fin.ST2025★ 3 cited

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024

Harrison Katz, Erica Savage

Using all U.S. Airbnb reservations created in 2019-2024 (booking-count weighted), we quantify pandemic-era shifts in nights per booking (NPB) and the mechanism behind them. The mea…

stat.AP2025★ 2 cited

Forecasting the U.S. Renewable-Energy Mix with an ALR-BDARMA Compositional Time-Series Framework

Harrison Katz, Thomas Maierhofer

Accurate forecasts of the US renewable-generation mix are critical for planning transmission upgrades, sizing storage, and setting balancing-market rules. We present a Bayesian Dir…

stat.ME2025

On a fast consistent selection of nested models with possibly unnormalized probability densities

Rong Bian, Kung-Sik Chan, Bing Cheng +1

Models with unnormalized probability density functions are ubiquitous in statistics, artificial intelligence and many other fields. However, they face significant challenges in mod…

stat.AP2025★ 7 cited

Lead Times in Flux: Analyzing Airbnb Booking Dynamics During Global Upheavals (2018-2022)

Harrison Katz, Erica Savage, Peter Coles

Short-term shifts in booking behaviors can disrupt forecasting in the travel and hospitality industry, especially during global crises. Traditional metrics like average or median l…