LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

AAMA - American Apparel Manufacturers' Association

ACL - Access Control List

ASCII - American Standard Character Information Interchange

AFS - Andrew's File System

AR - Autoregressive

ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency

BBS - Bulletin Board Service

BLS - Bureau of Labor Statistics

BP - Back-Propagation

C - C Programming Language

CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

CE - Consumer Expenditure

COT - College of Textiles

CPI - Consumer Price Index

DOS - Disk Operating System for PCs

EDI - Electronic Data Interchange

EDP - Electronic Data Processing

ETS - Economic Time Series

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

Gb - Giga-Byte

GUI - Graphical User Interface

HP - Hewlett Packard

HTTP - Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol

IBM - International Business Machine Corporation

LAN - Local Area Network

MA - Moving Average

MB1 - Mouse Button #1 (the left-most mouse button)

Mb - Mega-Byte

MIP - Million Instructions Per Second

MRCA - Marketing Research Corporation of America

NCSU - North Carolina State University

NIPA - National Income and Product Accounts

NN - Neural Network

NPD - NPD Panel Data

NTC - National Textile Center

PC - Personal Computer

PCE - Personal Consumption Expenditure

POS - Point-of-Sale

PPI - Producer Price Index

RAM - Random Access Memory

RDB - Relational Database

RDBMS - Relational Database Management System

SAS - SAS Institute Inc., and the SAS System

SDC - State Data Center

SIC - Standard Industrial Classification

SL/IP - Serial Line Internet Protocol

SQL - Structured Query Language

TABIS - Textile and Apparel Business Information System

TCP/IP - T C P Internet Protocol

Unix - Unix Operating System

URL - Universal Resource Locator

WAN - Wide Area Network

WWW - World Wide Web