
Business Forecasting with ForecastX Software/Student CD
McGraw-Hill Professional (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 16. March 2006
Book
Mixed media product
416 pages
978-0-07-124494-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Fifth Edition of Business Forecasting is the most practical forecasting book on the market with the most powerful software-Forecast X. This new edition presents a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. As always, the author team of Wilson and Keating deliver practical how-to forecasting techniques, while theory and math are held to a minimum. This edition focuses on the most proven, acceptable methods used commonly in business and government such as regression, smoothing, decomposition, and Box-Jenkins. This new edition continues to integrate the most comprehensive software tool available in this market, Forecast X. With the addition of ForeCastX, this text provides the most complete and up-to-date coverage of forecasting concepts with the most technologically sophisticated software package on the market. This Excel-based tool (which received a 4 point out 5 rating from PC Magazine, Oct. 2, 2000 issue) effectively uses wizards and many tools to make forecasting easy and understandable.
More details
Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
921 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-124494-7 (9780071244947)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Software company producing Forecast X, which will accompany this edition of BUSINESS FORECASTING.
Content
Wilson/Keating, 5/e Brief TOCChapter 1Introduction to Business ForecastingChapter 2The Forecast Process, Data Considerations, and Model SelectionChapter 3Moving Averages and Exponential SmoothingChapter 4Introduction to Forecasting with Regression MethodsChapter 5Forecasting with Multiple RegressionsChapter 6Times-Series DecompositionChapter 7ARIMA (Box-Jenkins) - Type Forecasting ModelsChapter 8Combining Forecast ResultsChapter 9Forecast Implications