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the ways that demographic and spatial variables can be used as 
predictors of the viability of branch banks. 
In addition, branch transaction data is needed to explain 
discrepancies in the results generated by the SMART model and 
the branches closed in the real world, to explain why some 
branches the SDSS indicates as being viable actually have been 
closed, 
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