...Yifan Yang; Zhigeng Fang; Yangyang Du; Shiyun Zhang Purpose This article aims to address the challenges of data scarcity, individual differences and multidimensional nonlinear relationships in complex equipment cost prediction. A fusion prediction model based on the residual category merging...

... Cost prediction Quality cost Discrete grey model Modelling mechanism In the 1950s, J.M. Juran presented a general discussion of quality cost in his Quality Control Handbook, in which the cost of poor quality was compared to “the gold in the mine” (Juran, 1951). Over the next several...