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‘Horses for Courses’ in demand forecasting
(Elsevier, 2014-02-22)
Forecasting as a scientific discipline has progressed a lot in the last 40 years, with Nobel prizes being
awarded for seminal work in the field, most notably to Engle, Granger and Kahneman. Despite these
advances, even ...
How Accurate and Reliable (Certain) Are Medical Predictions?
(2015)
Unpredictability and uncertainty reigns over most of medicine. Should women be screened for mammography and men for prostate cancer? The answer is not obvious as a growing number of researchers and doctors assert that the ...
Forecasting and Uncertainty: A Survey
(2014)
The origins of forecasting can be traced back to the beginning of human civilization with attempts to predict the weather, although forecasting as a field first appeared in the 1940s and attracted more followers from the ...
The Costs and Benefits of Positive Illusions
(2015-11)
Positive illusions are associated with unrealistic optimism about the future and an inflated assessment of one's abilities. They are prevalent in normal life and are considered essential for maintaining a healthy mental ...
The advanced forecasting information system PYTHIA: An application in real estate time series
(Emerald, 2015)
Purpose – The main scope of the paper is to demonstrate the capabilities of PYTHIA forecasting platform, to compare time series forecasting techniques, which were used to forecast mortgage loans in UK, and to show how ...
The Forthcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution: Its Impact on Society and Firms
(2017-01)
The impact of the industrial and digital (information) revolutions has, undoubtedly, been substantial on practically all aspects of our society, life, firms and employment. Will the forthcoming AI revolution produce similar, ...
Forecasting and uncertainty: A survey
(IOS Press, 2016)
The origins of forecasting can be traced back to the beginning of human civilization with attempts to predict the
weather, although forecasting as a field first appeared in the 1940s and attracted more followers from the ...
Hypertension: empirical evidence and implications in 2014
(Open Heart, 2014-05-28)
High blood pressure (HBP) or hypertension (HTN) is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Despite this fact, there is widespread agreement that the treatment of HBP, ...
The Forthcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution: Its Impact on Society and Firms
(2017-01-11)
The impact of the industrial and digital (information) revolutions has, undoubtedly, been substantial on practically all aspects of our society, life, firms and employment. Will the forthcoming AI revolution produce similar, ...