Advances in business and management forecasting (Record no. 5431)
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| fixed length control field | 03041nam a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780762312818 |
| Terms of availability | TZS 75,967.50 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MUL |
| Language of cataloging | eng. |
| Description conventions | AACR |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 658.40355 ADV |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Advances in business and management forecasting |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / edited by Kenneth D. Lawrence, Michael Geurts |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Oxford : |
| Name of publisher | JAI Press, |
| Year of publication | c2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 287 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Advances in business and management forecasting |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes references. |
| 505 ## - Formatted Contents | |
| Formatted contents note | LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ix <br/>EDITORIAL BOARD xi <br/>PART A: FORECASTING AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN <br/> FORECASTING IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT<br/> <br/> Kenneth D. Lawrence, Sheila M. Lawrence and Ronald K. Klimberg<br/> 3 (10)<br/> EXTRACTING FORECASTS FROM ADVANCE ORDERS<br/> <br/> Frenck Waage<br/> 13 (14)<br/> INVENTORY-SHIPMENT RATIO TIME SERIES MODELS FOR DURABLE AND NON-DURABLE PRODUCTS<br/> <br/> Supriya Mitra<br/> 27 (30)<br/>PART B: FORECASTING AND FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS <br/> AN APPLICATION OF CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS TO THE A PRIORI CLASSIFICATION OF FINANCIAL RATIOS<br/> <br/> Shaw K. Chen and Alan D. Olinsky<br/> 57 (20)<br/> BANK RATING CHANGE PREDICTIONS: ALTERNATIVE FORECASTING MODELS<br/> <br/> David T. Cadden and Vincent Driscoll<br/> 77 (16)<br/> FORECASTING SECURITY RETURNS: THE USE OF HETEROGENEOUS EXPECTATIONS<br/> <br/> Rebecca Abraham and Charles W. Harrington<br/> 93 (26)<br/>PART C: SALES FORECASTING <br/> COMBINING MOVING AVERAGES WITH EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING TO PRODUCE MORE STABLE SALES FORECASTS<br/> <br/> Tej S. Dhakar, Charles P. Schmidt and David M. Miller<br/> 119 (14)<br/> IMPROVED EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING WITH APPLICATIONS TO SALES FORECASTING<br/> <br/> Tej S. Dhakar, Charles P. Schmidt and David M. Miller<br/> 133 (6)<br/> USING FLOW-THROUGH AND DIFFUSION MODELS TO FORECAST NEW PRODUCT SALES<br/> <br/> Michael D. Geurts and David B. Whitlark<br/> 139 (6)<br/> AN APPLICATION OF A REPEAT PURCHASE DIFFUSION MODEL TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY<br/> <br/> Franklin J. Carter, Carol M. Motley, Alphonso O. Ogbuehi and Jacqueline A. Williams<br/> 145 (30)<br/> FORECASTING PRODUCT SALES WITH CONJOINT ANALYSIS DATA<br/> <br/> David B. Whitlark<br/> 175 (8)<br/> IMPROVING SALES FORECASTS BY TESTING UNDERLYING HYPOTHESES ABOUT CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: A PROPOSED QUALITATIVE METHOD<br/> <br/> Eric D. DeRosia, Glenn L. Christensen and David B. Whitlark<br/> 183 (32)<br/>PART D: FORECASTING METHODS AND ANALYSIS <br/> FORECASTING SALES OF COMPARABLE UNITS WITH DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA)<br/> <br/> Ronald K. Klimberg, Shelia M. Lawrence and Kenneth D. Lawrence 201<br/> <br/> DATA MINING RELIABILITY: MODEL-BUILDING WITH MARS AND NEURAL NETWORKS<br/> <br/> Rod J. Lievano and Eric S. Kyper<br/> 215 (28)<br/> SELECTING FORECASTING INTERVALS TO INCREASE USEFULNESS AND ACCURACY<br/> <br/> Michael D. Geurts<br/> 243 (4)<br/> FORECASTING SIMULTANEOUS BRAND LIFE CYCLE TRAJECTORIES<br/> <br/> Frenck Waage<br/> 247 (18)<br/> A TYPOLOGY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL BIASES IN FORECASTING ANALYSIS<br/> <br/> Paul Dishman<br/> 265 (12)<br/> A FORECAST COMBINATION METHODOLOGY FOR DEMAND FORECASTING<br/> <br/> J. Gaylord May and Joanne M. Sulek<br/> 277 |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | eng. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Business forecasting |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS | |
| Item type | Book |
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| Mzumbe University Main Campus Library | Mzumbe University Main Campus Library | 03/31/2015 | FST (MU) | 658.40355 ADV | 0079427 | 1 | 12/01/2022 | Book |