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Aug 2026
Estimating Hierarchical Demand in Retail Operations
A hierarchical structure over product attributes is a central input to many product assortment and inventory optimization models, yet no existing method can recover such structures from the aggregate sales data that retailers routinely collect. We introduce HASTERAD (hierarchical attribute substitution tree estimatio...
Blair Flicker, Olga Perdikaki, Mark Ferguson et al.
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