Expensive forecasting models, pressure from Washington, imported experts, sophisticated guidebooks and other devices are secondary tools when it comes to business year forecasts,
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Every night after checking in and every morning before checking out, Crowther spends hours online collecting weather data and running through forecasting models.
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He argued that forecasting models based on empirical relationships would keep producing the same predictions even as the underlying model generating the data changed.
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To forecast the market, Zweig has probably probed, measured, monitored . . . and created more forecasting models than anyone you will ever meet,
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Another reason Meyer should be taken seriously is the track record of his forecasting models, which brought him distinction in his private consulting practice.
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The model is currently maintained by the Division for the free use by any US state with the desire to use this forecasting model.
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Even the Federal Reserve, which has a large staff to maintain its forecasting model and faces no competitive pressures, mixes technical rigor with seat-of-the-pants subjectivity.
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They could use forecasting models and parameters that incorporate their knowledge and experience of that region, or they could simply enter them through a spreadsheet.
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The company overreached, Gateway executives say, not because its forecasting model went awry but because sales targets were set above the level in the forecast.
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Global Insight, an economic consulting firm that has fed the details of the two economic plans into a computer forecasting model, reached the same conclusion.
