Talk:Forecasting/Archives/2013

Concern with classification of methods
Regression analysis, ARMA, and ARIMA are not causal methods (they do not "identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable"). They should be moved to time-series methods, or Causal and econometric methods should be separated. I think this page needs some work. I'm not fluent enough in this area to make edits, though. Clebio 16:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree that ARMA, ARIMA are not causal methods, although I had thought multiple regression was one. There are other forecasting methods I am aware of that are not mentioned - wavelets, transfer functions, singular spectrum analysis, Fourier analysis, naive methods, and many others. 80.1.88.54 21:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

MAE and MAD are the same according the accuracy section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.91.93.158 (talk) 09:54, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Site advertising
I don't usually edit pages so I don't really know wikipedia policy, but the following seems like advertising a website.

"The main source of information about forecasting on the internet is the Forecasting Principles site, forecastingprinciples.com." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 145.97.201.67 (talk) 15:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC).

I have to agree the second paragraph on this article sounds very much like advertising. Some of the external links might be useful and should be considered to be moved to a different section possibly.
 * As someone who has taken an interest in the subject, I can confirm that the comment about the Forecasting Principles site is true and fair. It is much bigger than the others. The other links are useful and should be kept. 80.1.88.54 21:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but the text around the link is simply promotional adcopy. The link itself is to a low content site which appears to pitch conferences.  I have removed it - please discuss here if you feel it should be re-added.  Kuru  talk  12:13, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I too don't usually edit pages but I know that eGain is a company, among others, that provide forecast based building control. This is advertising. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.91.3.3 (talk) 08:44, 3 October 2013 (UTC)