Business fluctuations : forecasting techniques and applications /
Bails, Dale.
Business fluctuations : forecasting techniques and applications / Dale G. Bails, Larry C. Peppers. - 2nd ed. - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1993. - xiv, 607 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Business forcasting; macroeconomic forces shaping the environment of the business sector; data collection and analysis; forecasting and forecast evaluation; simple linear regression; multiple regression models; advanced topics in regression analysis; time series models; advanced time series models; monitoring and revising forecasts; communicating the forecast to management management.
This book is pragmatic in nature. Students must become well acquainted with the broad institutional environment surrounding the business sector, that forecasting skills are best developed and retained by repeated exposure to real (as opposed to contrived) forecasting models, and that techniques and applications must accurately reflect the process of forecasting as actually carried out in the business community. The book is accompanied by an Instructor's Manual.
0130933945
Business cycles--Forecasting.
Business forecasting.
HB3711 / .B325 1993
338.5/442
Business fluctuations : forecasting techniques and applications / Dale G. Bails, Larry C. Peppers. - 2nd ed. - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1993. - xiv, 607 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Business forcasting; macroeconomic forces shaping the environment of the business sector; data collection and analysis; forecasting and forecast evaluation; simple linear regression; multiple regression models; advanced topics in regression analysis; time series models; advanced time series models; monitoring and revising forecasts; communicating the forecast to management management.
This book is pragmatic in nature. Students must become well acquainted with the broad institutional environment surrounding the business sector, that forecasting skills are best developed and retained by repeated exposure to real (as opposed to contrived) forecasting models, and that techniques and applications must accurately reflect the process of forecasting as actually carried out in the business community. The book is accompanied by an Instructor's Manual.
0130933945
Business cycles--Forecasting.
Business forecasting.
HB3711 / .B325 1993
338.5/442