Want to gain valuable insights on accurate predictions and the correct assessment uncertainties?  This is an area that influences all types of future-oriented decisions: from determining appropriate inventory and sales [...]

Accurate predictions and the correct assessment of uncertainty are indispensable for all types of future oriented decisions: from determining appropriate inventory levels and predicting the amount of sales of [...]

Following my post on the M4 competition yesterday, Spyros Makridakis sent me these comments for posting here. I would like to thank Rob, my friend and co-author, for his insightful remarks [...]

The official guidelines for the M4 competition have now been published, and there have been several developments since my last post on this. There is now a prize for prediction interval [...]

The “M” competitions organized by Spyros Makridakis have had an enormous influence on the field of forecasting. They focused attention on what models produced good forecasts, rather than on the mathematical [...]

Co-organised by the University of Nicosia and the National Technical University of Athens Professor Spyros Makridakis, a pioneer in the field and, for many, the father of forecasting, is [...]