Patents by Inventor Vincent E. Poortinga

Vincent E. Poortinga has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140019208
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to evaluate model stability and fit. An example method disclosed herein includes building a fit function based on causal factors associated with a marketing mix model, building a stability function based on override factors associated with corresponding ones of the causal factors, and integrating scaling factors into the stability function to facilitate a combined regression analysis of the fit function and the stability function, the scaling factors respectively associated with corresponding causal factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Nathan W. Brixius, Vincent E. Poortinga, Ross Link, Peter Burke, Shweta Shah