While numerous researchers have proposed dierent models to forecast trial sales for new products, there is little systematic understanding about which of these models works best, and under what circumstances these ยฎndings change. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive investigation of eight leadi
A comparison of opinion and regression forecasting for an industrial product
โ Scribed by John R. Walton
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 409 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0019-8501
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