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Using Time-Series Regression to Predict Academic Library Circulations.
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Brooks, Terrence A. – College and Research Libraries, 1984
Four methods were used to forecast monthly circulation totals in 15 midwestern academic libraries: dummy time-series regression, lagged time-series regression, simple average (straight-line forecasting), monthly average (naive forecasting). In tests of forecasting accuracy, dummy regression method and monthly mean method exhibited smallest average…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Analysis of Variance, Higher Education, Library Circulation