Does selection bias blind performance diagnostics of business decision models? A case study in salesforce optimization

Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 416-421

  Wang, Jun ^a   Singh, Moninder ^a   Varshney, Kush R ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; BUSINESS DECISIONS; BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; BUSINESS SCENARIO; COMPARISON STUDY; CONTROL GROUPS; DATA SAMPLE; DATA SETS; DECISION MODELS; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTICS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SALESFORCE; SAMPLE BIAS; SELECTION BIAS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; OPTIMIZATION;

MODELS;

EID: 84867224849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2012.6273573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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