Croston’s method is generally viewed as being superior to exponential smoothing when the demand is intermittent, but it … addresses the problem of obsolescence. We describe a new hybrid of Croston’s method and Bayesian inference called Hyperbolic …

-demand intervals of Croston׳s method and its variants is beneficial. The evaluated error metrics are considered for automatic model …Intermittent demand time series involve items that are requested infrequently, resulting in sporadic demand. Croston׳s … method and its variants have been proposed in the literature to address this forecasting problem. Recently other novel …