Abstract: Sales is an important aspect of running a commercial business. To increase sales, it must be accompanied by adequate availability of goods so that consumer needs can be met. However, the ...

Abstract: This paper discusses a neural network development approach based on an exponential smoothing method which aims at enhancing previously used neural networks for traffic flow forecasting. The ...

In the STEPAR method, PROC FORECAST first fits a time trend model to the series and takes the difference between each value and the estimated trend. (This process is called detrending.) Then, the ...

This section briefly introduces the forecasting methods used by the FORECAST procedure. Refer to textbooks on forecasting and see "Forecasting Methods" later in this chapter for more detailed ...