In this paper, we study the use of a recursive discounted least squares model for forecasting daily hospital census. We show, by means of a case study, how one can incorporate, with a minimum amount of cost and effort, institutional and exogenous factors explicitly into the model so as to...

The growing interest in gaming activity has led to an increased interest in Nevada's economy. Gross gaming revenues are regarded as an important economic indicator of the Nevada economy and of considerable importance to the State's budgetary planning since taxes derived from these revenues...