For the twelfth year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The winners for the current year have been announced! Please join in congratulating the winners: [...]
(Cross-posted from Hyndsight) Review papers are extremely useful for new researchers such as PhD students, or when you want to learn about a new research field. The International Journal of Forecasting produced a whole review issue in 2006, and it contains some [...]
Please join the IIF in welcoming two new Distinguished Researchers and Fellows to the Institute. Michael Clements is Professor of Econometrics at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading and an Associate member of the Institute for New Economic [...]
An interesting new initiative in forecasting has been launched by Fotios Petropoulos and Nikolaos Kourentzes: the Forecasting Society, which aims at bringing researchers in (judgmental) forecasting together with people willing to participate in forecasting experiments. Here is how it works for researchers... [...]
Here is just a brief preview of our upcoming issue of The Oracle, the IIF's online newsletter: Dear participants of the 34th International Symposium on Forecasting, It has been our great pleasure that we could welcome you to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for [...]
ATTENTION Teachers of Forecasting! IIF Student Forecasting Awards The IIF is offering prizes to top-performing students in undergraduate and graduate level forecasting courses. Star students will receive $100, a Certificate of Achievement from the IIF, and one year’s free membership of the [...]
The organizing team has organized an extremely promising roster of distinguished keynote and featured speakers: Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller University and Columbia University Tilmann Gneiting, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Dimitris N. Politis, University of California, [...]
The 2014 International Symposium on Forecasting in Rotterdam just ended, and the preparations for next year's conference are getting into high gear! Watch a short video introduction to our host city Riverside, CA! More material to follow!
Why I Became a Forecaster? Almost 20 years ago, after graduating as an electrical and computer engineer and obtaining my MBA, I was trying to solve a forecasting problem I had at work. I was trying to determine new clients and their [...]
Why I became a forecaster, Peg Young It was a dark and stormy night….no, no – that’s the start of another story. This story starts in Lewiston, Maine, where I was attending Bates College, with plans to obtain a Bachelor’s in mathematics. Prior [...]
