Patent ID: 8428998

Claim:
A method to be practiced on a computer for identifying under-marketed entities for target up-selling, said method comprising: defining, by first operation of said computer, a data neighborhood of said entities; assigning, by second operation of said computer, a frontier for said data neighborhood wherein said frontier minus observations of said entities is a statistical distribution taking on only non-negative values and is selected from the group consisting of exponential, Gamma and half-Normal distributions; calculating, by third operation of said computer, an estimator for said frontier to represent a maximum target and a minimum target for each one of said observations from which performance goals for said target up-selling to said under-marketed entities are set; and outputting, by fourth operation of said computer, via at least one of a display, a printer and a speaker information about said maximum target, said minimum target and/or said goals to a user of said information, whereby said under-marketed entities for said target up-selling is identified.