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A survey was conducted of New Zealand personnel consultants. Their beliefs about the validity of various selection tools and their claimed usage of these tools was then compared with the validities in a previously published meta-analysis. The experts claimed to use the predictors they believed...
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Ray Fair is one of my favorite econometricians. He has an excellent website, fairmodel.econ.yale.edu, where he freely shares his models. He writes clearly and his methods are reported in detail. He is concerned with the proper use of econometric methods. For example, he has long been opposed to...
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The M3-Competition continues to improve the design of forecasting competitions: It examines more series than any … previous competition, improves error analyses. and includes commercial forecasting programs as competitors. To judge where to …
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its probable success given future trends and its impacts on the human and natural environment. Forecasting, by which I …
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Romer (1993) suggests that universities should undertake experiments that would test the value of mandatory attendance for economics courses. He presents evidence showing that those who attended his classes received higher grades on his exams and concluded that “an important part of the...
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its probable success given future trends and its impacts on the human and natural environment. Forecasting, by which I …
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In forecasting demand for expensive consumer goods, direct questioning of potential consumers about their future …
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Research on forecasting is extensive and includes many studies that have tested alternative methods in order to … determine which ones are most effective. We review this evidence in order to provide guidelines for forecasting for marketing …, extrapolation, rule-based forecasting, expert systems, and econometric methods. We discuss research about which methods are most …
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the commitment of International Journal of Forecasting to replication research. In addition the study examines procedures … forecasting methods. On the negative side, FHMM does not fully describe the conditions under which one might expect a given …
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It seems trivial to point out that one of the major goals of the International Institute of Forecasters is to communicate research findings. In particular, the IIF tries to foster communication among researchers, between researchers and practitioners, across nationalities, and across...
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