Advances in business and management forecasting
/ edited by Kenneth D. Lawrence, Michael Geurts
- Oxford : JAI Press, c2006.
- xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Advances in business and management forecasting .
Includes references.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ix EDITORIAL BOARD xi PART A: FORECASTING AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN FORECASTING IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Kenneth D. Lawrence, Sheila M. Lawrence and Ronald K. Klimberg 3 (10) EXTRACTING FORECASTS FROM ADVANCE ORDERS
Frenck Waage 13 (14) INVENTORY-SHIPMENT RATIO TIME SERIES MODELS FOR DURABLE AND NON-DURABLE PRODUCTS
Supriya Mitra 27 (30) PART B: FORECASTING AND FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS AN APPLICATION OF CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS TO THE A PRIORI CLASSIFICATION OF FINANCIAL RATIOS
Shaw K. Chen and Alan D. Olinsky 57 (20) BANK RATING CHANGE PREDICTIONS: ALTERNATIVE FORECASTING MODELS
David T. Cadden and Vincent Driscoll 77 (16) FORECASTING SECURITY RETURNS: THE USE OF HETEROGENEOUS EXPECTATIONS
Rebecca Abraham and Charles W. Harrington 93 (26) PART C: SALES FORECASTING COMBINING MOVING AVERAGES WITH EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING TO PRODUCE MORE STABLE SALES FORECASTS
Tej S. Dhakar, Charles P. Schmidt and David M. Miller 119 (14) IMPROVED EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING WITH APPLICATIONS TO SALES FORECASTING
Tej S. Dhakar, Charles P. Schmidt and David M. Miller 133 (6) USING FLOW-THROUGH AND DIFFUSION MODELS TO FORECAST NEW PRODUCT SALES
Michael D. Geurts and David B. Whitlark 139 (6) AN APPLICATION OF A REPEAT PURCHASE DIFFUSION MODEL TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Franklin J. Carter, Carol M. Motley, Alphonso O. Ogbuehi and Jacqueline A. Williams 145 (30) FORECASTING PRODUCT SALES WITH CONJOINT ANALYSIS DATA
David B. Whitlark 175 (8) IMPROVING SALES FORECASTS BY TESTING UNDERLYING HYPOTHESES ABOUT CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: A PROPOSED QUALITATIVE METHOD
Eric D. DeRosia, Glenn L. Christensen and David B. Whitlark 183 (32) PART D: FORECASTING METHODS AND ANALYSIS FORECASTING SALES OF COMPARABLE UNITS WITH DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA)
Ronald K. Klimberg, Shelia M. Lawrence and Kenneth D. Lawrence 201
DATA MINING RELIABILITY: MODEL-BUILDING WITH MARS AND NEURAL NETWORKS
Rod J. Lievano and Eric S. Kyper 215 (28) SELECTING FORECASTING INTERVALS TO INCREASE USEFULNESS AND ACCURACY
Michael D. Geurts 243 (4) FORECASTING SIMULTANEOUS BRAND LIFE CYCLE TRAJECTORIES
Frenck Waage 247 (18) A TYPOLOGY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL BIASES IN FORECASTING ANALYSIS
Paul Dishman 265 (12) A FORECAST COMBINATION METHODOLOGY FOR DEMAND FORECASTING