A bayesian model for sales forecasting at sun microsystems

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Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-129

  Yelland, Phillip M ^a   Kim, Shinji ^a   Stratulate, Renée ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Markov chain; Monte Carlo; Prior elicitation; Sales forecast

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951169808     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1090.0477     Document Type: Article

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