Business Forecasting with Forecast X, 4/e by Wilson and Keating is a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. The focus, however, is on the most proven acceptable methods used commonly in business and government such as regression, smoothing, decomposition, and Box-Jenkins. This exciting new edition integrates the most comprehensive software tool available in this market, Forecast X. This excel-based tool (which received a 4 point out 5 rating from PC Magazine, Oct. 2, 2000 issue) effectively uses wizards and many tools to make forecasting easy and understandable. The user may customize output from the Forecast X package in a myriad of ways.



Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Forecast Profess, Data Considerations, and Model Selection

Chapter 3. Moving Averages and Exponential Smoothing

Chapter 4. Introduction to Forecasting with Regression Methods

Chapter 5. Forecasting with Multiple Regression

Chapter 6. Time-Series Decomposition

Chapter 7. Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) Type Forecasting Models

Chapter 8. Computationally Intensive Statistics

Chapter 9. Combining forecast Results

Chapter 10. Forecast Implementation