Date Thesis Awarded
5-2020
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Science (BS)
Department
Mathematics
Advisor
Junping Shi
Committee Members
Guannan Wang
Ayse Durukan Sonmez
Abstract
A mathematical model describing the trend of the movie revenue after its release is constructed based on the Bass Diffusion Model. % and the SIR epidemic model. The model takes account of the effect of the coefficient of innovation including media advertising, social media propaganda and the coefficient of imitation which are mainly the recommendation from people who have seen the movie. With this proposed model, we fit the historical revenue behavior of the 90 movies in the data set, and use statistical measure to test how well the model fits the data and how well the predictions can be. Finally based on the parameters generated from data fitting, we cluster the movies into different groups and find the common features for each group that can be used for future clustering and future predictions.
Recommended Citation
Shang, Yuxin, "A Mathematical Model for the Trend and Prediction of Movie Revenue" (2020). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 1472.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1472
