The Big Data Newsvendor: Practical Insights from Machine Learning

DOI10.1287/opre.2018.1757zbMath1443.90093WikidataQ62788371 ScholiaQ62788371MaRDI QIDQ4971580

Gah-Yi Ban, Cynthia Rudin

Publication date: 12 October 2020

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85658

zbMATH Keywords

quantile regression; machine learning; statistical learning theory; big data; newsvendor; sample average approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90C25: Convex programming

90B05: Inventory, storage, reservoirs

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Uses Software

• CVX
• ElemStatLearn

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