It can be highly beneficial for companies to develop a forecast of the future values of some important metrics, such as demand for its product or variables that describe the economic climate. There ...

Crane, D. B., and James R. Crotty. "A Two-Stage Forecasting Model: Exponential Smoothing and Multiple Regression." Management Science 13, no. 8 (April 1966).

Your client, Dave’s BBQ, a local independent restaurant, is interested in determining the effect on sales revenue of certain advertising strategies. Dave has weekly data on advertising dollars spent ...

One key to efficient data analysis of big data is to do the computations where the data lives. In some cases, that means running R, Python, Java, or Scala programs in a database such as SQL Server or ...

Regression analysis refers to a method of mathematically sorting out which variables may have an impact. The importance of regression analysis for a small business is that it helps determine which ...

Looking for the best financial forecasting software? Explore the key features to consider when choosing the right solution for your business. Financial forecasting is an essential step of many ...

Journal of Population Research, Vol. 28, No. 2/3, Local and Small Area Modelling (2011), pp. 185-201 (17 pages) This study revisits a spatial regression approach for small-area population forecasting ...