Decision making and planning under low levels of predictability

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 716-733

  Makridakis, Spyros ^a   Taleb, Nassim ^b  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Forecasting; Judgmental predictions; Low level predictability; Non normal forecasting errors; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349971614     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2009.05.013     Document Type: Editorial

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