Kenya’s food markets are known for extreme volatility influenced by weather shocks, inflation, currency fluctuations, and ...

There is ongoing concern that extended exposure to cell phone electromagnetic radiation could be related to an increased risk of negative health effects. Epidemiological studies seek to assess this ...

Demand forecasting remains one of the most complex challenges in retail management. As consumer behavior evolves rapidly, ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Many studies have evaluated the impact of differences in population size and growth rate on population forecast accuracy. Virtually all these ...

Business forecasting is essential for the survival for companies of all sizes. The building block used by forecasters is historical data or the past performance of the business to predict future ...

This paper investigates whether classification and regression trees ensemble algorithms such as bagging, random forests and boosting improve on traditional parametric models for forecasting the equity ...

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 ...

During the course of operation, businesses accumulate all kinds of data such as numbers related to sales performance and profit, and information about clients. Companies often seek out employees with ...