Authors: Spyros Makridakis, Ellen Bonnell, Simon Clarke, Robert Fildes, Mike Gilliland, Jim Hoover, and Len Tashman Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting, Fall 2020 issue The purpose of this paper is to provide a realistic assessment of the potential benefits [...]
The IIF Board of Directors is pleased to announce Esther Ruiz, Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, with the title of IIF Fellow, as a distinguished researcher in the field of forecasting. Please join us in congratulating Esther! Esther Ruiz is [...]
For the seventeenth 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 (2) $10,000 grants. The deadline date for applications is [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pandemics and Forecasting: Seeing the Way Forward via the Taleb/Ioannidis Debate Boston, Mass., July 7, 2020 — The impact of COVID-19 clearly has serious implications for humanity, and the measures needed to fight the pandemic present a profound challenge [...]
John P.A. Ioannidis1, Sally Cripps2, Martin A. Tanner3 1 Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, and Departments of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, Stanford University, and Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford, California, [...]
Nassim Nicholas Taleb1,2 1 Universa Investments, USA 2 Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, USA Correspondence to: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, email: nnt1@nyu.edu 11 June 2020 Link to the full opinion paper by Nassim N. Taleb, Yaneer [...]
Learning from the positions of Nassim N. Taleb and John P. Ioannidis in the COVID-19 debate 25 June 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a tremendous focus on forecasting as a key component for informing populations and for steering decisions throughout the [...]
We are pleased to announce Virtual ISF 2020--Rio de Janeiro with LIVE keynote lectures, practitioner talks, panel-discussion, workshops, contributed sessions, forecasting summer school and much more. Important 2020 dates Abstract and invited session submission deadline: 31 July Abstract decision notification: 14 August [...]
The IIF holds an election every March for new Directors, replacing those whose term has expired. We are delighted to announce the new Directors elected to the IIF Board: Anastasios Panagiotelis, Monash University Shouyang Wang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Doris [...]
[This is part of an IJF special section: Epidemics and forecasting with focus on COVID-19] Aleksandr Aravkin, IHME, University of Washington, Seattle Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic was declared on March 11, 2020. In order to help decision makers and hospitals, IHME launched its [...]