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    • Location Analytics – Store Location Analysis 

      Dacha, Kalyani; Nekkalapu, Kranthi R. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Retail chains compete against each other in terms of reaching the customer. While companies often try to attract customers by targeting them with the right set of offers and promotions, it is imperative that they are located ...
    • Making the Data Complete: An approach to Deal with Missing Data Problems 

      Sharma, Divya; Sinha, Abir (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      How the missing values should be treated seems to be a universal dilemma in the world of statistics. The subject has seen a lot of research in the past mainly on the methods of handling missing values. While in theory ...
    • Market Intelligence & Analytics 2.0 

      Kumar, Gaurav (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Analytics and market intelligence maybe the buzz words of today, but these concepts aren’t new. These can, in some shape and form, be traced back to the evolution of mankind right from the agrarian to industrial to the ...
    • Measuring Relative Impact of KPIs – A Game Theory Approach 

      S.M., Adinarayana M. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Customer satisfaction (CSAT) and Net Promoters Score (NPS) are related to key measures of future financial performance for firms. The ability to find key drivers for CSAT & NPS is an important step in any organizations’ ...
    • A New Method of Construction of E-optimal Generalized Group Divisible Designs With Two Groups 

      Ghosh, D. K.; V., Sreejith; Thannippara, Alex; Bagui, S. C. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Here we consider the construction of generalized group divisible designs with two groups (GGDD(2)) from balanced incomplete block designs. E-optimality of such GGDD is also discussed.
    • Occupational Stress among custodians of civic law: An exploratory study 

      Majumdar, Malini N.; Dutta, Avijan; Sengupta, Kalyan (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Purpose of the study: The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors responsible for creating occupational stress among West Bengal Police Officials. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employ an existing ...
    • Optimizing Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) or one of the Largest Merchant Acquirers in South America 

      Mathur, Gautam; Goyal, Tarang; Mudgil, Vinay (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Merchant Acquirers (‘MA’) play the essential role of accepting/ capturing, processing and settling the payments made through cards (credit, debit, etc.) for purchases made at merchants/retailers. This MA had a client ...
    • Pre-Opening Call Auction of Stock Price Discovery using Multivariate Lognormal Montecarlo Simulation 

      Goel, Saurabh; Bag, Dinabandhu (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Market microstructure design and testing of efficient market hypotheses have been of long interest in security research. Market microstructure discussions also include the impact of call auctions in price discovery and ...
    • Predicting Policy Renewal Probability in Auto Insurance Sector 

      Pagidimarri, Venkatesh; Kasivajjala, Vamsichandra; Miyan, Deepti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      We are entering a new phase of the information era, in which organizations query and analyze huge volumes of diverse data in real-time to improve outcomes for their most critical business processes. In today’s competitive ...
    • Predicting Risk of Diabetes in Non-Diabetic Population 

      Jain, Amar; Singhal, Shivang; Pagidimarri, Venkatesh; Kasivajjala, Vamsi C.; Dubey, Ayush; Sarkar, Suvomoy (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic debilitating disease affecting a major population of the developed and developing countries. The occurrence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rising rapidly among middle-aged American ...
    • Predicting risk of Rejection in Non-Submitted claims 

      Dubey, Ayush; Singhal, Shivang; Jain, Amar; Kasivajjala, Vamsi C.; Pagidimarri, Venkatesh (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      A 2011 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that claim denial rates vary significantly among states and health insurers. Of the small number of states tracking such information, denials ranged between ...
    • Price Discovery and Impact on Volatility: A Study of Indian Derivatives Market 

      Gakhar, Divya V. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
    • Process Mining of Suture Manufacturing Firms with DMAIC 

      Dhanya, J. S. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
    • Real Estate Investment Selection and Empirical Analysis of Property Prices: Study of Select Residential Projects for Gurgaon, India 

      Sehgal, Sanjay; Upreti, Mridul; Pandey, Piyush; Bhatia, Aakriti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The paper studies the residential micromarket of the Gurgaon region of the Delhi NCR, India to identify key determinants of real estate investment selection and perform empirical analysis of property prices. Primary survey ...
    • Recognizing trust in natural language in Amazon's online reviews 

      Tewari, Maitreyee (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The goal of this project is to build a system which could extract and classify ethotic statements (ethos relates to trustworthiness, credibility and reliability of seller) about Amazon’s service from a corpus of Amazon’s ...
    • Retail Credit Risk Model Validation: Performance and Stability Aspects 

      Aggarwal, Varun; Rej, Sanjukta (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Like a model without sufficient validation may only be a hypothesis (Stein 2002), a hypothesis without reason may just be an intuition. With the growing competition for acquisition of new and retention of existing retail ...
    • Review of efficiency of k-means algorithm on studies related to cardio vascular diseases 

      Chaudhuri, Avijit K.; Sinha, D.; Thyagaraj, K. S. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Medical science industry has huge amount of data, but unfortunately most of this data is not mined to find out hidden information present inside the data. Advanced data mining techniques can be used to discover those ...
    • Socioeconomic Implications of Wind Energy – A Perspective from Gujarat 

      Purohit, Amit; Pindoriya, Naran M. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      India possesses an abundant reserve of renewable sources of energy. These renewable energy sources may not limit to wind, solar, hydro and bio-mass. In order to harness energy from such renewable sources, a lot of policies ...
    • Statistical Modeling Approach Using Unstructured Data 

      Roy, Dipanmoy; D Costa, Daphne; Krishna, Praveen (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      This paper aims at finding the key factors that drive the average star ratings at e-commerce site for any product. The text reviews provided by customers on the websites are analyzed. The customer sentiments scores are ...
    • Study of Dimensions of Consumer Characteristics of Online tourism companies in India 

      Phutela, Nidhi; Dasgupta, Hirak (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Analysing customer perceptions is an important requirement not only for offline stores, but for online stores as well. Study of customer perceptions helps the company in understanding the requirements and expectations of ...