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For this reason, usually the methods used to predict book sales have
been generally based on experts' experience, who analyse data about sales and,
taking into account their knowledge of industry, their experience,
taking into account their knowledge of the industry, their experience,
and their perception about trends, could make decisions on the companies
production, i.e. how many books should be printed when a new book is published.

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\item \emph{Extreme learning machine (ELM)}:
ELM is an algorithm for training a single hidden
layer feedforward neural network which was first proposed by Guang-Bin Huang \cite
layer feedforward neural network, which was first proposed by Guang-Bin Huang \cite
{huang2006extreme}. A typical implementation of ELM is a single hidden layer network where the
connection weights between the input layer and the hidden layer are randomly initialized and
fixed, while the connection weights between the hidden layer the output layer are learnt
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analyzing a time series, instead, we have considered data about other,
previously published, books and have taken as reference a set of
variables (or features),
related with the book publication process.
related to the book publication process.

\begin{table*}[!ht]
\caption{Parameters describing a book, provided by the company Trevenque S.L.}
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how many books are going to be actually sold out of that print run,
and taking that into account decide on the actual number of books that
are going to be printed. Just to be clear, printing books does not
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actually sell them, but it is obviously necessary to print books
before you sell them, and once you have to do it, the publisher might
make decisions on printing a few more and check, with this model, what
would be the influence in sales if, for instance, you decide to send
more books to every point of sale or distribute more in novelty. We
more books to every point of sale or distribute more in novelty. We
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will come back to this choice later on when examining the resulting
models.

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With regard to the feature \texttt{publisher}, it has been removed from the
final dataset since it is indeed included in the code of \texttt{collection}.
In addition, we think it is not really relevant for the accuracy of the models
In addition, we think it is not really relevant to the accuracy of the models
and, moreover, publishers probably will not want to use the results of other
publishing companies for predicting their own sales.

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