Jetta, Kurt; Rengifo, Erick W. - 2014
This paper develops more accurate and robust baseline sales estimates (sales in the absence of price promotion) using a … aggregated (chain-level) vs. disaggregated (store-level) point-of-sale (POS) data to estimate baseline sales and to measure … propose two tests to determine the superiority of a particular baseline estimate: the minimization of weekly sales volatility …