Forecasting is an important aid in effective and efficient planning. It is a current topic of growing important in business and economic analysis. It is an attempt is predict the future by examining the past. It consists of generating unbiased estimates of future magnitude of some variable, on the basis of past and present knowledge and experience. The present work of the reasearch is focused on development of some forecasting methods with special reference to Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) methods along with residual measures. The...

THE PRIME AIM AND CONSEQUENT IMPORTANCE of "future studies" is to comprehend a reasonable picture that will possibly emerge or evolve in future, consequent upon the performance of a system or systems we build and or develop with a view on an envisaged or anticipated performance of these over time. Thus the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT aspect of investigation concerns about system's failure or breakdown or equivalently (putting it in a positive way), it is the system's reliability that is crucially important in current researches. This aspect thus should be, and in fact, is recognized as the vital...

The Data Envelopment Analysis is a linear programming based technique for measuring the performance efficiency of organizational units which are termed as Decision Making Units. This method has been employed for assessing the relative performance of set of firms that uses a variety of identical inputs to produce a variety of identical outputs. The present study aims at constructing and solving linear programming problems to estimate overall technical, pure technical, scale and technical efficiency of public and private sector banks in India. The study uses the Data Envelopment Analysis to...