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Loyalty Programmes: Practices, Avenues and Challenges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
Complexity of modern business requires managers to strive for innovative strategies to acquire and retain customers in any product market field. As acquiring new customers is getting costlier day by day, business organizations ...
Playing the game of communication: enhancing skills through a reading of literature
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2008-11-10)
Managerial communication/conversation in organizations is difficult to capture in its complexities.
Even if attempts are made, the outcome is rarely, if ever, natural and spontaneous. How then do we
proceed with an ...
An Optimization-Based Decision Support System for Strategic Planning in a Process Industry: The Case of an Aluminum Company in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
We describe how a generic multi-period optimization-based decision support system (DSS) can be used for strategic planning in process industries. The DSS is built on five fundamental elements- materials, facilities, ...
Confidence interval of two independent binomial proportions using weighted profile likelihood
(Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 2008-11-11)
Interval estimation of the difference of two independent binomial proportions is an important problem in many applied settings. Newcombe (1998) compared the performance of several existing asymptotic methods, and based on ...
Bayesian analysis of the change-point problem for directional data
(Journal of Applied Statistics, 2008-11-11)
In this paper, we discuss a simple fully Bayesian analysis of the change-point problem for the directional data in the parametric framework with von Mises or circular normal distribution as the underlying distribution. We ...
A likelihood integrated method for exploratory graphical analysis of change-point problem with directional data
(Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 2008-11-11)
In this article we introduce a new likelihood based method, called the likelihood integrated method, which is distinct from the well-known integrated likelihood method. We use the likelihood integrated to propose a simple ...
Managing ethical dilemmas: information discretion after switching job
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2008)
Information attainable in some randomly incomplete multivariate response models
(Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2008-11-10)
In a general parametric setup, a multivariate regression model is considered when responses may be missing at random while the explanatory variables and covariates are completely observed. Asymptotic optimality properties ...
Don't fight nature: yours and others
(2008-07-24)
The winter and fall seasons have lived upto their
nature. Retail Industry has seen the worst winter.
For the organised retailers this is the first real winter
after a very prolonged spring. I always wonder how
we try ...
Living in Bermuda triangle
(2008-07-24)
I
n my last article I had mentioned about the Indian retailers are passing through a Bermuda Triangle. It looks like they would have to
learn to live in this triangle for a long time, if the recent dip in the market is ...