May 2009
Beginner to intermediate
864 pages
23h 13m
English
Dursun Delen, Ph.D.
OUTLINE
Predicting box-office receipts (i.e., financial success) of a particular motion picture is a difficult and challenging problem. According to some domain experts, the movie industry is the land of hunches, and the wild guesses due largely to the difficulty associated with predicting the product demand.
In their highly publicized research, Sharda and Delen (2007) explored the use of a variety of data mining models in predicting the financial performance ...