The Seventh Edition of Business Forecasting is the most practical forecasting book on the market with the most powerful software-Forecast X.
This edition presents a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. As always, the author team of Keating and Wilson deliver practical how-to forecasting techniques, along with dozens of real world data sets while theory and math are held to a minimum.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Forecasting and Predictive Analytics
Chapter 2:The Forecast Process, Data Considerations, and Model Selection
Chapter 3:Extrapolation 1. Moving Averages and Exponential Smoothing
Chapter 4:Extrapolation 2. Introduction to Forecasting with Regression Trend Models
Chapter 5:Explanatory Models 1. Forecasting with Multiple Regression Causal Models
Chapter 6:Explanatory Models 2. Time-Series Decomposition
Chapter 7:Explanatory Models 3. ARIMA (Box-Jenkins) Forecasting Models
Chapter 8:Predictive Analytics: Helping to Make Sense of Big Data
Chapter 9:Classification Models: The Most Used Models in Analytics
Chapter 10:Ensemble Models and Clustering
Chapter 11:Text Mining
Chapter 12:Forecast/Analytics Implementation
Barry Keating, J. Holton Wilson, John Galt Solutions Inc.