Research Article

An Approach for Demand Forecasting in Steel Industries Using Ensemble Learning

Table 2

Statistical description of influence features for forecasting the demand.

IndicesOutcome

Mean8231.9752444.08167.4228.931.4660.0951205.62
S.D.2269.0812385.5443.101.280.909.6810848.99
6985.2543731.75135.0028.001.0052.0045167.18
7883.5052941.50150.0029.001.0062.0052418.97
9640.5059861.00200.0030.002.0067.2561496.95
Range(4010, 10178)(30275, 60000)(100, 200)(26, 30)(0, 4)(38, 76)(26072, 62275)
Skewness0.2970.1230.4540.3221.403−0.309−0.624
Kurtosis−0.520−0.801−0.7402.5691.180−0.829−0.553
Data typeNumericNumericNumericNumericNumericNumericNumeric

S.D. = standard deviation,  = availability,  = raw material,  = worker,  = working day,  = holiday,  = down time, outcome = demand level,  = first quantile,  = second quantile,  = third quantile.