Business Forecasting: with ForecastX [With CDROM]

by J. Holton Wilson, John Galt Solutions Inc., Barry Keating, et al.

Book Overview

This is a business forecasting text that is appropriate for courses in business schools. It focuses on the methods that professional forecasters have found useful and provides a practical tool for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0077309308
• ISBN13: 9780077309305
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Length: 513 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book, dated software

This book provides a great overview of the more commonn Excel-based forecasting methods. Though it is designed as a text book, there is enough detail and enough examples to allow you to self-teach the subject. There are one or two significant typographical errors in the later chapters which can lead to frustration. The included software is excellent but you have to make sure that you have the version that runs on your system. The 5th edition does not work well with Excel 2007 but the just-released 6th edition does. The 6th edition also has a chapter on data mining that is not in older versions.

good service

I got the item a week after placing its order. The book came in condition describled. Good purchasing experience.

Pretty good stats book

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

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