Editorial Review:
"The Fifth Edition of Business Forecasting" is the most practical forecasting book on the market with the most powerful software - "Forecast X". This new edition presents a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. As always, the author team of Wilson and Keating deliver practical how-to forecasting techniques, while theory and math are held to a minimum. This edition focuses on the most proven, acceptable methods used commonly in business and government such as regression, smoothing, decomposition, and Box-Jenkins. This new edition continues to integrate the most comprehensive software tool available in this market, "Forecast X". With the addition of "ForeCast X", this text provides the most complete and up-to-date coverage of forecasting concepts with the most technologically sophisticated software package on the market. 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.
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Customer Reviews
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good service  2008-09-20
I got the item a week after placing its order. The book came in condition describled. Good purchasing experience.
Pretty good stats book  2008-03-26
This book is pretty helpful for someone who does not know a lot about statistics. It also comes with software and instructions to help run some more sophisticated analysis. Very helpful for students and businesspeople alike.
Good practical book, both introduction and reference 1999-09-24
Wilson and Keating's "Business Forecasting" is an accessible introduction to practical forecasting. There is little explicit treatment of the statistical properties of the methods used, but the practical examples (which are numerous) show the effects of those properties. The methods should get a manager or engineer through most situations that require a justifiable forecast. I'm a bug on references, and there were an adequate number of them, but it would have been better if the reason each work was cited was specified.This book is also, in practice, the user manual for the descriptive statistics / forecasting package 'SORITEC,' which is bound with the book. As such, it is absolutely required for beginning users of the package. The features of SORITEC which are covered are covered well, but that sharpens my wish that there would be at least a short description and a few references for the features not used in the main presentation. In summary, a fine book for the 'dirty hands' crowd of forecasters; not bad for the 'ivory tower' crowd either, but not quite enough for the latter
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