
- 236 pages
- English
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Forecasting in Business and Economics
About this book
Forecasting in Business and Economics presents a variety of forecasting techniques and problems. This book discusses the importance of the selection of a relevant information set. Organized into 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the forecasting techniques that are useful in decision making. This text then discusses the difficulties in interpreting an apparent trend and discusses its implications. Other chapters consider how a time series is analyzed and forecast by discussing the methods by which a series can be generated. This book discusses as well the views of most academic time series analysts regarding the usefulness of searches for cycles in most economic and business series. The final chapter deals with the techniques developed for forecasting. This book is a valuable resource for senior undergraduates in business, economics, commerce, and management. Graduate students in operations research and production engineering will also find this book extremely useful.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Forecasting in Business and Economics
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1. Basic Concepts of Forecasting
- CHAPTER 2. Trend-Line Fitting and Forecasting
- CHAPTER 3. Forecasting from Time Series Models
- CHAPTER 4. Further Aspects of Time Series Forecasting
- CHAPTER 5. Regression Methods and Econometric Models
- CHAPTER 6. Survey Data: Anticipations and Expectations
- CHAPTER 7. Leading Indicators
- CHAPTER 8. Evaluation and Combination of Forecasts
- CHAPTER 9. Population Forecasting
- CHAPTER 10. Technological Forecasting
- CHAPTER 11. World Models
- CHAPTER 12. Techniques Old and New
- Index