TY - JOUR
AU - Buckland, Wm. R.
AB - Book Selection The table is designed to be used in conjunction with the book. For example, if the manager has a short-term forecast to prepare he would look up in the table and find that the quickest method to prepare a forecast is simple exponential smoothing. Under exponential smoothing he will find a worked example explaining how to use this technique or references to explore further. However, only 70 per cent of the forecasting techniques in the table actually appear in the index under the same name. This will provide some confusion! In comparison with another table it is much more detailed than that produced by Chambers et af.2 but the latter has the advantage that it can be used on its own as each technique is described with references. One aspect seemed curious. If the manager knew he had an immediate term, non-correlated, horizontal pattern of data, the book advises the use of Inventory Control or Mathematical Programming. Mathematical Programming is not mentioned in the index and the one page headed "Inventory Control Theory" exhorts the reader to look elsewhere. It also contains the sentence, "Inventory Control shifts the burden ... from forecasting to inventory manipulation, which in 
TI - A Guide to Probability Theory and Application
JF - Journal of the Operational Research Society
DO - 10.1057/jors.1974.118
DA - 1974-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/a-guide-to-probability-theory-and-application-8Upt0sBF5x
SP - 649
EP - 650
VL - 25
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -