The impact of aggregation level on forecasting performance

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 93-94, Issue SPEC.ISS., 2005, Pages 479-491

  Zotteri, Giulio ^a   Kalchschmidt, Matteo ^b   Caniato, Federico ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggregation level; Cluster analysis; Demand forecasting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INVENTORY CONTROL; SALES;

AGGREGATION LEVELS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMAND FORECASTING; DEMAND GENERATION PROCESSES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 9544221663     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2004.06.044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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