Sales Growth Rate Forecasting Using Improved PSO and SVM

Accurate forecast of the sales growth rate plays a decisive role in determining the amount of advertising investment. In this study, we present a preclassification and later regression based method optimized by improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) for sales growth rate forecasting. We use sup...

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Main Authors: Xibin Wang, Junhao Wen, Shafiq Alam, Xiang Gao, Zhuo Jiang, Jun Zeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/437898