A demand estimation procedure for retail assortment optimization with results from implementations

Management Science

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2401-2415

  Fisher, Marshall ^a   Vaidyanathan, Ramnath ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assortment planning; Estimation; Retailer operations; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICS; TIRES;

ASSORTMENT PLANNING; ATTRIBUTE LEVELS; CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS; DEMAND ESTIMATION; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERROR; RETAIL ASSORTMENT; RETAILER OPERATIONS; STOCK KEEPING UNIT;

SALES;

EID: 84907894065     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.1904     Document Type: Review

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