War, Politics & Customer Loyalty: Forecasting Using Benford’s Law
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FREE Issue! Our first issue of Frequencies: The Journal of Size Law Applications, is available free to anyone visiting our website, www.ekaros.ca. You can also download for free a mathematical supplement to this issue, “Getting Started with Benford Forecasting,” and other interesting articles. Tell your colleagues! So do hundreds of other time variables, from the time required to sell a house, to the time required to complete an engineering project. And this simple fact could have tremendous impact on decision-makers, if they knew and understood it. The forecasting and analysis opportunities provided by Benford’s Law are tremendous. If you’re thinking of making an investment in customer relationship management software, or selling property, or running for political office—or almost any activity involving management of time— you already have a large incentive to investigate forecasting using Benford’s Law.
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