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Summary: This book has the formulas.
Review: Chapters 3 and 4, and on covered the vital information that is useful for inventory system forecasting at the SKU level, and for measuring the accuracy of the forecasts. This book was extremely helpful in that regard. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Excellent book written with the practitioner in mind
Review: Excellent book written with the practitioner in mind. Mathematical formalism kept to a minimum. The last 4 chapters (about judgmental forecasting and practical aspects of forecasting) are a plus vs. other books.
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Summary: forecasting
Review: forecasting, economics, business cycles, economic activity, business environment
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Summary: More of a reference text
Review: I used this text for an undergraduate course in Industrial Forecasting. Unfortunately, the text is not very good if you actually want to learn new material from it. It is better suited as a reference text for you to look up equations and concepts after you have already learned them.
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Summary: excellent for quantitative requirements!
Review: I'm a student at Penn State-Behrend where the economic faculty are first-rate. This text allows them to convey all the valuable principles and applications needed to competitive in the job market.
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Summary: Down to earth, practical guide on forecasting.
Review: The book provides coverage of three important areas: - Basic forecasting tools and methods - summarizing data, statistical tools, regression, as well as some material on more advanced forecasting methods
- Data preparation - time series decomposition, smoothing methods
- A discussion of the issues involved in forecasting - long term versus short term forecasting, accuracy of forecasts, the importance and limitations of judgmental forecasts and combining these with statistical forecasts I was fortunate enough to stumble across this book in a colleagues office and believe this book should belong in every market research professional's shelf.
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Summary: Excellent Examples and Practical Approach
Review: This book was not only recommended, but given to me as a MUST READ at work. Excellent practical approach to the theory with a minimum of formulation. Good practical examples and demos. I recommend it as a training manual for new analysts on the job.
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Summary: DecisionPro Users must have!
Review: Was referred to this book while evaluating several software packages for forecasting and this really helped us make the right decision. We decided on Vanguard Software DecisionPro as it supports all the methods (many of which I had no idea existed) that are outlines in this book. This book (and the software) are great. This is a great add-on for anyone doing forecasting!
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