[…] Even back in 1957 (when future President Gerald R. Ford was still watching a lot of baseball on the radio), the problem of forecasting agents was recognized. James H. Lorie's article "Two important problems in sales forecasting" (The Journal of Business Vol. 30, No. 3 (July 1957), pp. 172-179) is so good I had to blog about it three times (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). …