Research Article

Sales History-based Demand Prediction using Generalized Linear Models

Volume: 23 Number: 3 December 25, 2019
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Sales History-based Demand Prediction using Generalized Linear Models

Abstract

It's vital for commercial enterprises to accurately predict demand by utilizing the existing sales data. Such predictive analytics is a crucial part of their decision support systems to increase the profitability of the company.

In predictive data analytics, the branch of regression modeling is used to predict a numerical response variable like sale amount. In this category, linear models are simple and easy to interpret yet they permit generalization to very powerful and flexible families of models which are called Generalized linear models (GLM). The generalization potential over simple linear regression can be explained twofold: First, GLM relax the assumption of normally distributed error terms. Moreover, the relationship of the set of predictor variables and the response variable could be represented by a set of link functions rather than the sole choice of the identity function.

This work models the sales amount prediction problem through the use of GLM. Unique company sales data are explored and the response variable, sale amount is fitted to the Gamma distribution. Then, inverse link function, which is the canonical one in the case of gamma-distributed response variable is used. The experimental results are compared with the other regression models and the classification algorithms. The model selection is performed via the use of MSE and AIC metrics respectively. The results show that GLM is better than the linear regression. As for the classification algorithms, Random Forest and GLM are the top performers. Moreover, categorization on the predictor variables improves model fitting results significantly.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Engineering

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 25, 2019

Submission Date

April 28, 2019

Acceptance Date

September 18, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 23 Number: 3

APA
Özenboy, B., & Tekir, S. (2019). Sales History-based Demand Prediction using Generalized Linear Models. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, 23(3), 840-849. https://doi.org/10.19113/sdufenbed.558620
AMA
1.Özenboy B, Tekir S. Sales History-based Demand Prediction using Generalized Linear Models. J. Nat. Appl. Sci. 2019;23(3):840-849. doi:10.19113/sdufenbed.558620
Chicago
Özenboy, Başar, and Selma Tekir. 2019. “Sales History-Based Demand Prediction Using Generalized Linear Models”. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi 23 (3): 840-49. https://doi.org/10.19113/sdufenbed.558620.
EndNote
Özenboy B, Tekir S (December 1, 2019) Sales History-based Demand Prediction using Generalized Linear Models. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi 23 3 840–849.
IEEE
[1]B. Özenboy and S. Tekir, “Sales History-based Demand Prediction using Generalized Linear Models”, J. Nat. Appl. Sci., vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 840–849, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.19113/sdufenbed.558620.
ISNAD
Özenboy, Başar - Tekir, Selma. “Sales History-Based Demand Prediction Using Generalized Linear Models”. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi 23/3 (December 1, 2019): 840-849. https://doi.org/10.19113/sdufenbed.558620.
JAMA
1.Özenboy B, Tekir S. Sales History-based Demand Prediction using Generalized Linear Models. J. Nat. Appl. Sci. 2019;23:840–849.
MLA
Özenboy, Başar, and Selma Tekir. “Sales History-Based Demand Prediction Using Generalized Linear Models”. Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, vol. 23, no. 3, Dec. 2019, pp. 840-9, doi:10.19113/sdufenbed.558620.
Vancouver
1.Başar Özenboy, Selma Tekir. Sales History-based Demand Prediction using Generalized Linear Models. J. Nat. Appl. Sci. 2019 Dec. 1;23(3):840-9. doi:10.19113/sdufenbed.558620

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