Since 1971, interest in the use of decompositional multiattribute preference models in marketing has been increasing. The applications have varied in terms of the type of data used, behavior predicted ...

Each estimation method is based on finding parameter estimates that minimize a badness-of-fit function that measures the difference between the observed sample covariance matrix and the predicted ...

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Mar., 2006), pp. 45-60 (16 pages) Many nonlinear functions have been used to predict crop yield response to applied ...

In credit risk modeling, banks and insurance companies routinely use a single model for estimating key risk parameters. Combining several models to make a final prediction is not often considered.