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Preview of Foresight #62 (2021-Q3)

Following is Editor Len Tashman's preview of the new issue of Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting.  Preview of Foresight #62 (2021:Q3) This 62nd issue of Foresight has been heavily “infected” by the COVID pandemic. Stephan Kolassa’s book review of Resurrecting Retail by Doug Stephens raises the question of whether the [...]

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Hyndman's 5 Conditions for Easy Forecasting

What makes something easy (or difficult) to forecast? This question was answered by Prof. Rob Hyndman on the Forecasting Impact podcast (February 6, 2021), and it's worth a look at his response. Rob was recently named a Fellow of the International Institute of Forecasters, and is someone who is known [...]

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SAS/IIF Research Grants (proposals due October 1)

The International Institute of Forecasters and SAS® are funding two $10,000 grants to support research on forecasting. Per the announcement: For the eighteenth year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on improving forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The award for this year will be [...]

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M6 Financial Forecasting Competition announced

M6 Financial Forecasting Competition The Makridakis Open Forecasting Center has announced the M6 Financial Forecasting Competition, to begin in February 2022. This will be a "live" competition running through February 2023, with a focus on forecasts of stock price (returns) and risk, and on investment decisions based on the forecasts. [...]

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Preview of Foresight #63 (2021-Q4)

Following is editor Len Tashman's preview of the 2021-Q4 issue of Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. Preview of Foresight #63 (2021-Q4) FORESIGHT HALL OF FAME Adopting the idea from other journals that recognize outstanding contributions to the field through best paper awards, we are pleased to announce that [...]

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Intermittent Demand Forecasting (new book by Boylan and Syntetos)

I've never been much of a fan of forecasting approaches to intermittent demand. In situations like intermittent demand (or other areas where we have little hope of reasonably accurate forecasts), my thinking is "why bother?" If we can't expect to solve the problem with forecasting, we need a different approach. [...]

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Top 3 AMD Ryzen™-powered laptops under INR 50,000




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Acer Swift 3 OLED Review || A Truly Powerful Thin and Light Machine




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Lenovo Yoga AIO 7 Review (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H + Radeon RX 6600M)




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Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra - This gaming laptop is force to reckon!




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OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite review in 60 seconds! Worth The Money?




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The three-sigma rule

A remarkable result in probability theory is the "three-sigma rule," which is a generic name for theorems that bound the probability that a univariate random variable will appear near the center of its distribution. This article discusses the familiar three-sigma rule for the normal distribution, a less-familiar rule for unimodal [...]

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Interactive procedures in SAS

SAS software supports two kinds of procedures: interactive and non-interactive. Most SAS procedures are non-interactive. They begin with a PROC statement, include one or more additional statements, and end with a RUN statement. When SAS encounters the RUN statement, the procedure executes all statements, then exits. On the other hand, [...]

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The correlogram: Visualize correlations by fitting angles

A common way to visualize the sample correlations between many numeric variables is to display a heat map that shows the Pearson correlation for each pair of variables, as shown in the image to the right. The correlation is a number in the range [-1, 1], where -1 indicated perfect [...]

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Automate the creation of a range attribute map in SAS

In SAS, range attribute maps enable you to specify the range of values that determine the colors used for graphical elements. There are various examples that use the GTL to define a range attribute map, but fewer examples that show how to use a range attribute map with PROC SGPLOT. [...]

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Man Accused Of Killing Jodhpur Beautician, Burying Her Body Arrested

A man has been arrested here in connection with the murder of a 50-year-old beautician in Rajasthan's Jodhpur whose body was chopped and buried in a pit by the accused, an official has said.




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Congress To Begin 'Delhi Nyay Yatra' Today Against AAP Government's Policies

The Congress will begin a month-long 'Delhi Nyay Yatra' from Rajghat on Friday to corner the Aam Aadmi Party government on various issues affecting the city.




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1 Killed, 2 Injured, 13 Rounds Fired: 3 Minors Arrested In Delhi Shootout

One person was killed and two others were injured when three men on a motorcycle opened fire on three friends returning home on a scooter last night in the Kabir Nagar area of North East Delhi.




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Explosion At Hyderabad Hotel Damages Six Huts, Injures 2

The explosion occurred in Telangana Spice Kitchen on Road Number One Jubilee Hills. According to police, the explosion damaged the boundary wall of the hotel.




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5 Killed As Speeding Car Rams Truck On Greater Noida Expressway

At least five people were killed this morning after their speeding car rammed a truck that had broken down and was parked on the roadside in Noida.




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24% Deaths In Delhi Caused Due To Infectious, Parasitic Diseases: Report

A Delhi government report has attributed nearly 24 per cent of the total about 89,000 deaths registered in the national capital in 2023 to infectious and parasitic diseases like cholera, diarrhoea, tuberculosis and hepatitis B, among others.




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Jailed Gangster's Wife Tries To Extort Rs 2 Crore From Hotelier, Arrested

Police on Monday arrested Manisha, wife of jailed gangster Kaushal Chaudhary, for allegedly trying to extort Rs 2 crores from a hotel owner, officials said.




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Man Forges Son's Document To Shied Him In Rape-Murder Case, Arrested

A man was arrested in Noida on Monday for allegedly fabricating a Transfer Certificate (TC) for his son to show that he was a juvenile when he was arrested in a rape and murder case in 2016, police said.




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6 Killed, 1 Injured As Car Crashes Into Truck In Dehradun

Six people were killed and one sustained serious injuries when their car collided with a truck here early Tuesday, police said.




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DUSU Election Results To Be Announced On November 21

The results for the Delhi University Students' Union elections will be declared on November 21, almost two months after the polls were held, according to university officials.




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AG Noorani, Noted Constitutional Expert, Lawyer, Author And More

Abdul Ghafoor Noorani, eminent constitutional expert, lawyer and author, died today at the age of 93. A noted scholar on Jammu and Kashmir, his absence is being felt in the Union Territory, where many are mourning him.




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Sitaram Yechury - "Unrepentant Marxist", Author and Editor

The CPIM lost one of its pillars today as Sitaram Yechury, the party's three-time general secretary, strategist, think tank, author and editor of its mouthpiece People's Democracy, died at the age of 72.




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Jimmy Carter Turns 100 - 1st Ever US President To Reach Century Mark

Jimmy Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on Tuesday - the first ever US president to reach the century mark and another extraordinary milestone for the one-time peanut farmer who found his way to the White House.




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"We Talked About...": Sundar Pichai Recalls Last Meeting With Ratan Tata

Ratan Tata, born on December 28, 1937, is the Chairman of Ratan Tata Trust, two of the largest private-sector-promoted philanthropic trusts in India.




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From X Factor To One Direction: The Story Of Boy Band Star Liam Payne

Liam Payne, who rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction has died at the age of 31. The British singer fell to his death from the third-floor balcony of Hotel CasaSur Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.




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The Changing Face Of The Oval Office - All The US Presidents Since 1900

A look at how American leadership has evolved through major historical events and societal changes over the past century









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Google Chrome on iPhones gets new features with Drive, Maps integration - Business Standard

  1. Google Chrome on iPhones gets new features with Drive, Maps integration  Business Standard
  2. Stop Using Chrome On Your iPhone, Warns Apple—Millions Of Users Must Now Decide  Forbes
  3. 4 new Chrome improvements for iOS  The Keyword
  4. Chrome on iOS now lets you search using images and text at the same time  TechCrunch
  5. Google rolls out new features in Chrome for iPhone users  Moneycontrol






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Inflation in nearly half of major states outgrows India's Oct CPI; price pressure steepest in Chhattisgarh - Moneycontrol

  1. Inflation in nearly half of major states outgrows India's Oct CPI; price pressure steepest in Chhattisgarh  Moneycontrol
  2. Retail inflation surges to a 14-month high of 6.2% in October  The Times of India
  3. If we exclude vegetable prices, CPI inflation remains in RBI's range: UBI research  The Economic Times
  4. Rising food prices are likely to push back beginning of rate cutting cycle  The Indian Express
  5. India confident of reaching USD 100 billion trade volume with Russia ahead of 2030 timeline: S Jaishankar  Telegraph India