The problem of forecasting monthly demands for library network services is considered in terms of using forecasts as inputs to policy analysis models, and in terms of using forecasts to aid in the making of budgeting and staffing decisions. Box-Jenkins time-series methodology, adaptive filtering, and regression approaches are examined and compared…

FANTAB is a computer program written in Fortran IV which helps design factorial analysis of variance tables and provides formulae for table entries. It is a computerization of a paper entitled: "Rules of Thumb for Writing the Anova Table" (Millman and Glass, 1967). FANTAB is appropriate for factorial models which have two, three, or four…

The purposes of this study were to determine what characterizes a useful cost estimating model at the community college level, to implement at a community college the Resource Requirements Prediction Model 1.6 (RRPM) developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, to identify problems associated with implementation and…