It can be highly beneficial for companies to develop a forecast of the future values of some important metrics, such as demand for its product or variables that describe the economic climate. There ...

Learn how the line of best fit in regression analysis shows relationships between variables, how it's calculated, and its ...

Your client, Dave’s BBQ, a local independent restaurant, is interested in determining the effect on sales revenue of certain advertising strategies. Dave has weekly data on advertising dollars spent ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Linear regression is a type ...

Crane, D. B., and James R. Crotty. "A Two-Stage Forecasting Model: Exponential Smoothing and Multiple Regression." Management Science 13, no. 8 (April 1966).

Regression analysis refers to a method of mathematically sorting out which variables may have an impact. The importance of regression analysis for a small business is that it helps determine which ...

Journal of Population Research, Vol. 28, No. 2/3, Local and Small Area Modelling (2011), pp. 185-201 (17 pages) This study revisits a spatial regression approach for small-area population forecasting ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Many studies have evaluated the impact of differences in population size and growth rate on population forecast accuracy. Virtually all these ...