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This dissertation contains two topics in operations research. The first topic is to design a distribution network to facilitate the repeated movement of shipments from many origins to many destinations. A method is developed to estimate transportation costs as a function of the number of...
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The word numéraire refers to the unit of measurement used to value a portfolio of assets. Thechange of numéraire technique involves converting from one measurement to another. Theforeign exchange markets are natural settings for interpreting this technique (but are by no meansthe only...
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This thesis develops a forecasting model to predict six different volume measures on a weekly and daily basis for UPS … plans. Four different forecasting methods are used to evaluate each volume metric. Moving average, single exponential … smoothing, double exponential smoothing and Winter’s additive model are the four forecasting methods that are used to generate …
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as an alternative forecasting tool. Based on our results, we confidently conclude that money provides a good amount of … output, real or nominal. In forecasting inflation, we make a distinction between high- and low-inflation environments. In …
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's market values. The models constructed were typically more informative and had an increased forecasting performance compared …
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The main objective of this PhD was to further develop Bayesian spatio-temporal models (specifically the Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) class of models), for the analysis of sparse disease outcomes such as birth defects. The motivation for the thesis arose from problems encountered when...
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Time series forecasting is an important area of forecasting in which past observations of the same variable are … models, autoregressive (AR) techniques, moving averages (MA) etc. Recent research activities in forecasting also suggested … that artificial neural networks can be used as an alternative to traditional linear forecasting models. This study will …
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and techniques, including forecasting, budgeting, accurate and appropriate costing methods, performance management …
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Energy forecasts are widely used by the U.S. government, politicians, think tanks,and utility companies. While short-term forecasts were reasonably accurate, medium andlong-range forecasts have almost always been highly erroneous. In the U.S. many energypolicy decisions are driven by Annual...
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