DETERMINATION OF THE SEASONAL SALES MUCOLYTIC DRUGS BY METHODS OF NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS

Seasonality ? an important factor during the work with certain groups of medicines. The statistical analysis of sales can be useful to calculation of purchases and deliveries of goods according to this or that season. So, paying attention to seasonal changes of demand, it is possible to correct significantly within a year the range, to promote commodity turnover body height, attraction and deduction of buyers. In article comparison of volume of realization of popular mucolytic drugs of non-prescription dispensing is carried out: Аmbroxol, Аmbrobene, Lazolvan, and also released according to the prescription ? Аskoril, by methods of nonparametric statistics which find broad application in medical and biological researches, and are characterized by simplicity of carrying out calculations. For definition of seasonality the criterion Pearson's chi-square, and for calculation of a ratio of medicinal preparations in volume of purchases - sign criterion was used. Considering a main goal of the pharmaceutical organization satisfaction of needs of buyers, for the analysis were used given not on the profit sum, and by the number of the realized packings of a medicinal preparation. It is proved that the difference in preferences of these or those medicinal preparations is essential. Buyers in most cases give preference to drug Ambroxol among other mucolytic medicines that can be caused by the low cost, non-prescription dispensing and production in the territory of Russia. For this drug, as well as for an askoril, the expressed seasonality with prevalence of sales during the autumn and winter period is observed. It is offered to a drugstore on the basis of which the research was conducted in the conditions of a stable tendency of demand for mucolytic drugs in this group of buyers to plan providing with drugs the specified types: Ambroksol/Askoril/Ambrobene/Lazolvan concerning 5:3:1:1, or in a percentage ratio of 50%:30%:10%:10% (this conclusion has advisory nature).