STA589 Lab Assignment
STA589 Lab Assignment
STA589
MARKETING MODELS
LECTURER’S NAME
SUBMISSION DATE
24 July 2024
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QUESTION 1
A business analyst got data on sales and price and assumes a logistics model by using Excel Solver.
The screen shot below shows his Excel spread sheet.
a. Please specify in the solver window (by highlighting the cells reference) the:
i) Target cell (objective function)
ANSWER: $D$18 (SSE= 50.40)
ii) Target value (e.g. Min or Max)
ANSWER: Min
iii) Changing cells (estimation parameters or decision variables)
ANSWER: $G$3:$J$3 (a=17.49124 , b=2.343095 , c=-0.48563, d=1.990094)
Infoworks is a large computer discount store that sells computers and ancillary equipment and
software in the town where State University is located. Infoworks has collected historical data on
computer sales and printer sales for the past 10 years as follows:
600
500
Printer Sold
400
300
200
100
0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800
Personal Computer Sales
b) Describe the phenomenon.
ANSWER: The diagram above shows phenomenon P6: S-shape for both attributes. For
interpretation: Returns first increase and the decrease as personal computer sales increase.
1.Linear Model
2. Power Series Model
5. Gompertz Model
6. ADBUDG Model
ANSWER: ADBUDG Model is the best model among all of model because it has the
lowest value of Sum of Squared Error (SSE) and the highest value of R² which is 22617.401
and 0.7766. The other 3 model which are Semilog Model, Exponential Model and Modified
Exponential Model cannot be display because this model not suitable for this data. The
only model that can handle P6 are Power Series Model, Logistic Model, Gompertz Model
and ADBUDG Model. Other than that model cannot accommodate S-shape. Thus, based
on SSE and R² ADBUDG Model is the best model.