Advances in Business and Management Forecasting: Volume 11

Editors:

• Kenneth D. Lawrence
• Ronald K. Klimberg

Chapters:

• Advances in Business and Management Forecasting
• Advances in Business and Management Forecasting
• Advances in Business and Management Forecasting
• Copyright Page
• List of Contributors
• Editorial Advisory Board

Part I: Forecasting in Marketing and Sales

• Optimizing Resources to Better Forecast Future Profits
• Brand Experience and Customer Equity Prediction
• A Comparative Evaluation of Intermittent Demand Forecasting with Updated Smoothing Constants

Part II: Forecasting in Health Care

• Forecasting Pain and Discomfort for Canines with Disease for Establishing Appropriate Medication Levels
• Honing a Predictive Model to Accurately Forecast the Number of Bed Days Needed to Cover Patient Volume for a Large Hospital System
• Can Rationality of Usda’s Fixed-Event Crop Forecasts be Improved?

Part III: Forecasting in Business and Economics

• Business School Forecasting for the Real World
• Forecasting the Operating Income of Metlife
• Forecasting the Population Growth in China Based on the Welfare Efficiency and Demographic Statistics

Part IV: Topics in Forecasting

• Modeling Los Angeles Water Leaks Using Different Measures of Temperature
• How Information Spreads in Online Social Networks
• Is there a Home Run Derby Curse?