TY - BOOK AU - Lawrence,Kenneth D. AU - Klimberg,Ronald K. TI - Advances in business and management forecasting T2 - Advances in business and management forecasting, SN - 9780857249593 (hbk.) : AV - HD30.27 .A38 v.8 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Bingley PB - Emerald KW - Business forecasting KW - Management KW - Forecasting N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Removing systematic bias from demand forecasts; Joanne Utley --; Seasonal influences on electricity demand in the Mid-Atlantic region; John F. Kros --; Propane demand modeling for residential sectors: a regression analysis; Nitin Shenoy and Milton Smith --; A multiobjective model for warranty policies integrating product quality, market share, and R&D expenditures; Amitava Mitra and Jayprakash G. Patankar --; Forecasting bank solvency: an emphasis on loan quality; Rebecca Abraham and Charles W. Harrington, Jr. --; An evaluation of financial analysts and naïve methods in forecasting long-term earnings; Michael Lacina, B. Brian Lee and Randall Zhaohui Xu --; Short-term predictions of the total medical costs of California counties; Gary Kleinman, Dinesh Pai and Kenneth D. Lawrence --; Estimating admissions and discharges for planning purposes-case of an academic health system; Rung-Chuan Lin, Kalyan S. Pasupathy and Mustafa Y. Sir --; Simulation to forecast the impact of electronic medical records and inventory (patient) postponement in developing efficient health care supply chains; Virginia M. Miori, Daniel J. Miori and Brian W. Segulin --; Forecasting with information from the future; Frenck Waage --; Prediction markets as a forecasting tool; Daniel E. O'Leary --; Forecasting, control, and management of a production system using predictive visual interactive simulation; Rolando Quintana and Mark T. Leung --; Percentage forecasting error: a new forecasting performance measure-how accurate is it?; Ronald K. Klimberg, George P. Sillup and Kevin Boyle ER -