Advances in Business and Management Forecasting

Business scholars present recent findings on the forecasting of marketing, sales, and service; economic, financial, and insurance forecasting; and forecasting CEO compensation and operations. Specific topics include exploring the suitability of support vector regression and radial basis function approximation to forecast sales of Fortune 500 companies, service contracts for delays in delivery, detecting non-injured passengers and drivers in car accidents: a new under-resampling method for imbalanced classification, regression modeling based on a peer group for the executive compensation of AT&T CEO, and an agent-based queuing model for call center forecasting and management optimization. Volume 13 of Advances in Business and Management Forecasting presents state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to areas such as sales forecasting, retailing, service contracts, bankruptcy prediction, executive compensation, and call center staffing.

• | Author: Kenneth D. Lawrence, Ronald K. Klimberg
• | Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• | Publication Date: Sep 06, 2019
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781787542907
• | ISBN-10: 1787542904