Marina TuruntsevaPublished in:
Russian Journal of Entrepreneurship
– № 8-1 / August, 2011



Keywords: assessment of forecast quality, economic activity, economic indicators, forecasting


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Abstract:

The article is devoted to the quality analysis of economic performance forecasting. The author considers the simplest statistical techniques which are used to compare several predictions of a given indicator, as well as a set of tests that allow answering the question about the statistical significance of differences between these forecasts.

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