Using composite moving averages to forecast sales

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1281-1285

  Robb, D J ^a   Silver, E A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combinations of moving averages; Forecasting; Time series

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; SALES; SPREADSHEETS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COMPOSITE MOVING AVERAGES; EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGES; SALES FORECASTING; SIMPLE MOVING AVERAGES;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0036849564     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601440     Document Type: Article

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