Forecasting sales using online review and search engine data: A method based on PCA–DSFOA–BPNN
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.07.010
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Sales forecasting; Online reviews; Search engine data; BPNN; Principal component analysis; Improved fruit fly optimization algorithm;All these keywords.
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