Appriss Retail’s seminal research provides comprehensive analysis of retail returns, claims, fraud, and abuse on a large scale.

Retailers have a crime problem. It’s in the numbers. The issue is complex and often clouded by imprecise data. Sometimes from the industry itself.

The outdoor industry’s data problem is just the reality we live with as retailers and manufacturers, and even guides, magazine editors, and trail advocates. It’s tough to know what’s ...

Friday morning's highlight is the Retail Sales report which came in at a respectable 0.5 vs 0.5 headline. Core retail sales (excluding autos/gas/building materials) was even more respectable ...

A national lobbying group has retracted its startling estimate that “organized retail crime” was responsible for nearly half the $94.5 billion in store merchandise that disappeared in 2021, a ...

Recency bias is an underappreciated challenge in data analytics, particularly when historical data is used to draw trends and make predictions.

Sander Greenland, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Douglas G Altman, Sparse data bias, BMJ: British Medical Journal, Vol. 352 (11 Apr 2016 - 17 Apr 2016) ...

This study investigates regression analysis of multivariate current status data using a class of flexible semiparametric transformation frailty models. The maximum likelihood estimation procedure is ...