3 papers
stat.AP2024
A hybrid predictive and prescriptive modelling framework for long-term mental healthcare workforce planning
Harsha Chamara Hewage, Bahman Rostami-Tabar
Over the past decade, there has been a severe staffing shortage in mental healthcare, exacerbated by increased demand for mental health services due to COVID-19. This demand is pro…
stat.AP2021
Forecasting and its Beneficiaries
Bahman Rostami-Tabar, John E. Boylan
This chapter addresses the question of who benefits from forecasting, using Forecasting for Social Good as a motivating framework. Barriers to broadening the base of beneficiaries…
stat.AP2021
To aggregate or not to aggregate: Forecasting of finite autocorrelated demand
Bahman Rostami-Tabar, Mohamed Zied Babai, Aris Syntetos
Temporal aggregation is an intuitively appealing approach to deal with demand uncertainty. There are two types of temporal aggregation: non-overlapping and overlapping. Most of the…