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, [...]
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 [...]
Spyros Makridakis University of Nicosia IIF Founding Father and Fellow How did it all begin (IIF/ISF and the JF/IJF)? Towards the end of the 1970s, I was working at INSEAD France when the editor of Wiley UK visited me at the university. [...]
Press Release 04.02.2020 UNIC, Walmart, and Kaggle Launch M5 Forecasting Competition The premier academic forecasting competition returns in service of advancing the theory and practice of forecasting, with thousands of individuals and teams anticipated [...]
On behalf of Professor Spyros Makridakis, Director of the Institute For the Future (IFF) at University of Nicosia (UNIC) it is a pleasure to introduce you to the Makridakis Open Forecasting Center (MOFC) and its activities. Professor Makridakis is renowned as [...]
2nd International workshop on Forecasting for Social Good Call for Abstracts11-12 June 2020 Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France Sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), the workshop on Forecasting for Social Good is now accepting abstracts, both oral and poster presentations. [...]
