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The forecasting accuracy and determinants of football rankings

Article Abstract:

College football teams are ranked according to a weekly poll taken by 70 sportswriters and sportscasters, using predictors, such as inertia and constraints, rank elevators and time effects. The researchers agree that the team ranking is based on available evidence, reassesssment of old information and revising the ranking accordingly.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Evaluation, Reports, Football teams, Determinants, The Associated Press

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A survey of credit and bahvioural scoring: forecasting financial risk of lending to consumers

Article Abstract:

Methods of scoring consumer credit are discussed and possibly improvements analyzed. Credit and behavioral scoring, the influence of economic conditions, and how to gain profit from consumer lending are discussed.

Methods, Risk assessment, Credit ratings, Consumer credit, Default (Finance)

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Further results on focus forecasting vs. exponential smoothing

Article Abstract:

Demand Solution forecasting rules being arbitrary, the paper concludes that, with the use of statistical forecasting methods and exponential smoothing, results are more accurate.

Usage, Statistical hypothesis testing, Cookware industry

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