Reviews of Software and Books

Francis, T. and R.M. Hieberger. 1975. "The Evolution of Statistical Program Packages: The Beginning." in Proceedings of Computer Science and Statistics: 8th Annual Symposium on the Interface edited by J. W. France , Los Angeles, CA: UCLA

Gardner, Everette S. Jr. 1985. "Exponential Smoothing: The State of the Art." Journal of Forecasting 4: 1-28.

—. 1985. "Forecasting Trends in Time Series." Management Science 31: 1237-1246.

—. 1987. "Smoothing Methods for Short-term Planning and Control" in The Handbook of Forecasting A Manager's Guide edited by Spyros Makridakis and Steven C. Wheelwright New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Keen, P.G.W. and L.A. Woodman. 1984. "What to do with all those micros." Harvard Business Review Sept.-Oct.: 142-150.

Levenbach, Hans and James P. Cleary . 1984. The Modern Forecaster: The Forecasting Process through Data Analysis. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc.

Levitan, Laurence. 1981. "Getting the Most out of Application Software Packages ." Info Systems 4: 68-72.

Mahmoud, Essam. 1983. "An Evaluation of Selected Computer Packages for Forecasting ." Paper presented at the Third International Symposium on Forecasting, Philadelphia.

—. 1984. "Accuracy in Forecasting: A Survey." Journal of Forecasting 3 (April-June): 139-160.

—. 1987a. "Report on a Survey of the Use of Forecasting Methods and Software in Large Firms." Working Paper, University of North Texas.

—. 1987b. "The Evaluation of Forecasts." in The Handbook of Forecasting: A Manager's Guide edited by Spyros Makridakis and Steven C. Wheetwright. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Makridakis, Spyros et al. 1982. "The Accuracy of Extrapolation (time series) Methods: Results of a forecasting competition." Journal of Forecasting 1: 111-153.

—, S. Wheelwright and V. McGee. 1983. Forecasting Methods and Applications , Second Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

— and R. Winkler. 1983. "Averages of Forecasts: Some Empirical Results." Management Science 29: 987-995.

Malhotra, Naresh K. , Armen Tashchian and Essam Mahmoud. 1987. "The Integration of Microcomputers in Marketing Research and Decision Making." Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 15: 69-82.

Muller, Mervin E. 1980. "Aspects of Statistical Computing: What Packages For the 1980's Ought To Do." The American Statistician 34 (3).

Pegels, Carl C. 1969. "Exponential Forecasting: Some New Variations." Management Science 12: 311-315.

Decision Support Software (DSS), Inc. 1986 . EXPERT CHOICE Software Manual. McLean, VA: DSS, Inc.