The MIKAN product lines Decide
Toolkit, Decide for Intranet and Decide for Excel
offer high level analysis, modelling, and forecasting
capabilities.
All modules allow running highly
complex analyses. Results are comparable to artificial
neural networks avoiding their typical drawbacks like
being tricky to tune, being prone to over-fitting, and
the difficulty to interpret the results.
All solutionsincorporate a
non-linear, non-parametric powerful statistical
modelling method based on “Multivariate Adaptive
Regression Splines” (M-A-R-S).
DecideToolkitallows
integrating the functionality of DECIDE in your
applications.
Your staff or your customers get access to advanced
modelling methods, using the environment they are
familiar with.
Decide
for Intranetis an
Intranet-based client / server application. It requires no programming
skill and allows you to create complex models in very
short time. Decide for Intranet has been used for energy
data management, modelling of industrial fume
exhaust, and sales forecasting, amongst others. It is
designed to handle highly complex problems with
up to several thousand different
variables.
Decide
for Excel uses Excel
as front-end and is a tool for analysing and forecasting
problems with up to ten different variables. It is an
entry-level product for those who feel more comfortable with the well known
Microsoft Excel software.
"Using M-A-R-S, 'Multivariate
Adaptive Regression Splines', we can provide
forecasting results which have various decisive
advantages over using conventional methods like KALMAN
filter or Neural Networks."
HAKOM is located in Vienna and is a leading provider of
energy data management systems in Austria.
Awards
MIKAN
won the prize ofthe International Jury of
the French ministry
of research and education contest in 2002. It
was awarded for its innovative concepts for
statistical forecasting and modelling.
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