SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALCULATING ACTUAL DOLLAR COSTS FOR ENTITIES

摘要

Systems, methods, and computer programs for performing calculations of cost of entities are described. According to one embodiment, a method is described wherein one or more data sources are identified; information is gathered from those data sources, which is then used to calculate an adjusted cost of the entities. According to another embodiment, the information gathered from the data sources relates to dollar costs and other information pertaining to the entities, which is used to statistically model cost-related figures pertaining to the entities.

主权项

1. A system for executing computer software to generate adjusted dollar cost; the system comprising:
a processor; computer-readable memory coupled to the processor; a network interface coupled to the processor; software stored in the computer-readable memory and executable by the processor, the software having;
means for identifying one or more data sources with information about entities;means for obtaining one or more dollar costs and one or more predictor variables about the entities from the data sources;means for storing the dollar costs and the predictor variables in a database;means for calculating calculated dollar cost from one or more of the dollar costs for the entities with one or more dollar costs in their record;means for identifying groups;means for determining the order of the groups for use in predicting dollar cost estimates;means for predicting dollar cost estimates by joint modeling the calculated dollar costs or the adjusted dollar costs as the independent variable and using one or more of the groups as the independent variables; andmeans for calculating the adjusted dollar costs for one or more of the entities that have a dollar cost estimate in their record from at least in part the dollar cost estimates for those entities.