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Ivan Svetunkov edited this page Jul 21, 2026 · 3 revisions

Resources

Academic references and learning resources cited across the greybox wiki, collected here so individual pages can link rather than repeat them.

Books and online texts

  • Svetunkov, I. (2023). Statistics for Business Analytics. Online: https://openforecast.org/sba/. The primary companion text for greybox.
  • Svetunkov, I. (2022). Forecasting and Analytics with the Augmented Dynamic Adaptive Model (ADAM). Chapman and Hall/CRC. Online: https://openforecast.org/adam/.
  • Burnham, K.P. and Anderson, D.R. (2002). Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach. Springer-Verlag, New York. doi:10.1007/b97636. Basis for AIC/AICc-based selection (stepwise, CALM).
  • Levenbach, H. (2021). Four P's in a Pod: e-Commerce Forecasting and Planning for Supply Chain Practitioners. Independently published. ISBN 979-8461733575. Source of the Seasonality/Trend/Irregular (STI) classification implemented in EDA.

Information criteria

  • McQuarrie, A.D. (1999). A small-sample correction for the Schwarz SIC model selection criterion. Statistics & Probability Letters, 44(1), pp.79-86. doi:10.1016/S0167-7152(98)00294-6. Basis for BICc.

Forecast accuracy measures (measures)

Half-moment measures

  • Svetunkov, I., Kourentzes, N. and Svetunkov, S. (2023). Half Central Moment for Data Analysis. Working Paper of Department of Management Science, Lancaster University, 2023:3, pp.1-21.

Scoring rules and cross-validation

  • Gneiting, T. and Raftery, A.E. (2007). Strictly proper scoring rules, prediction, and estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102(477), pp.359-378.
  • Tashman, L.J. (2000). Out-of-sample tests of forecasting accuracy: an analysis and review. International Journal of Forecasting, 16(4), pp.437-450. Background for rolling_origin.

Smoothers (Smoothers)

  • Cleveland, W.S. (1979). Robust Locally Weighted Regression and Smoothing Scatterplots. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74(368), pp.829-836. doi:10.1080/01621459.1979.10481038.
  • Friedman, J.H. (1984). A Variable Span Smoother. Technical Report 5 (SLAC-PUB-3477; STAN-LCS-005), Laboratory for Computational Statistics, Stanford University. OSTI 1447470.

Demand analysis (AID)

  • Svetunkov, I. and Sroginis, A. (2025). Why do zeroes happen? A model-based approach for demand classification. arXiv:2504.05894. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2504.05894.

Diagnostics

  • Cook, R.D. and Weisberg, S. (1982). Residuals and Influence in Regression. Chapman and Hall. Background for diagnostics.

Software

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