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Croston's Method

Croston's method, introduced by J. D. Croston in 1972, is a time-series forecasting technique built for intermittent demand series in which periods of zero demand are frequent. Instead of forecasting the raw series, it models the size of demand when it occurs and the interval between demand occurrences as two separate processes.

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Croston's Method for Intermittent Demand Forecasting

Taxonomic method recordregression-modeleconometrics

  1. Croston, J. D. (1972). Forecasting and Stock Control for Intermittent Demands. Operational Research Quarterly, 23(3), 289-303. · DOI 10.1057/jors.1972.50

  2. Syntetos, A. A. & Boylan, J. E. (2005). The Accuracy of Intermittent Demand Estimates. International Journal of Forecasting, 21(2), 303-314. · DOI 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2004.10.001

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