The purpose of this project was to forecast the future business of four funeral homes operated by Pillsbury Funeral Homes in the Worcester County area. The statistical knowledge and skills employed in this project include database design, data collection, exploratory data analysis, use of life tables and the US Census data, hypothesis testing and the fitting of linear models for estimation and prediction.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Schafer, Alison Joy
• Go, Emmanuel V.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04C026M

Advisor

• Wilbur, Jayson D.

Year

• 2004

Sponsor

• Pillsbury Funeral Homes

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mathematical Sciences

Rights statement

• In Copyright