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forecasting methodology. Examination of the gaming revenues for seasonal and non-seasonal fluctuations indicate that each area … gaming revenues it was concluded that the autoregressive-moving average forecasting techniques suggested by Box and Jenkins … would be the most appropriate forecasting methodology to employ. A Box-Jenkins model was estimated for each area over a …
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models in a "combined" forecast. Granger and Newbold (Granger, C., P. Newbold. 1977. Forecasting Economic Time Series …. 1984. Accuracy in forecasting: a survey. J. Forecasting 3 139--159.) has reviewed over 20 articles all claiming that …
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The results of the classical Cyert, Davidson, and Thompson (CDT) model for estimating the allowance for doubtful accounts could be made more valuable by correcting one flaw. The CDT model rests on the total balance method of aging dollars and, as presented, its answers cannot wisely be applied...
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improvement was small. Implications for realistic forecasting situations are discussed, as are conditions under which the use of …
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Engineering manpower constitutes an important national resource where demand and supply must be in reasonable balance to assure continued economic growth. The paper establishes a demand analysis to predict the need for engineers in 15 industry groups through 1987, subject to various economic...
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An approach is proposed that is useful for long term forecasting of market penetration of new technologies, fuel price …
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In this paper, we study the use of a recursive discounted least squares model for forecasting daily hospital census. We …
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In this study, we postulate that forecasters desire to improve their performance by studying their past forecasting … techniques. In an empirical test, forecasts of fifty firms' EPS were prepared by seven forecasting models. The initial forecasts …
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In this paper the problems of using aggregate monthly data to estimate learning curves are investigated. Here, aggregate monthly data on labor hours are assumed to contain some of both fixed and variable labor hours. They are also assumed to be influenced by fluctuating quantities of work in...
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indicate that forecasting error, especially the mean error, does impact MRP system inventory costs and shortages; the greater …
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