Can Knowledge Improve Forecasts?

Linguistic Knowledge can Improve Information Retrieval

This article was published in the Proceedings of the Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP−2000) in Seattle, Washington, May 1−3, 2000. A preliminary version was published as a technical report (TR−99−83) in the Sun Microsystems Laboratories Technical Report Series. The article represents a milestone in an ongoing project aimed at discovering technology to help people find specif...

Using contingency approach to improve firms’ financial performance forecasts

One of the challenging issues for investors and professionals is appropriate models to evaluate financial situation of the firms. In this regard, many models have been extracted by researchers using different financial ratios to resolve these issues. However, choosing a model based on the conditions and users’ needs is complex. The main objective of this study is to identify the effect of conti...

Can Realized Volatility improve the Accuracy of Value-at-Risk Forecasts?

Do Experts’ SKU Forecasts improve after Feedback?

We analyze the behavior of experts who quote forecasts for monthly SKU-level sales data where we compare data before and after the moment that experts received different kinds of feedback on their behavior. We have data for 21 experts located in as many countries who make SKUlevel forecasts for a variety of pharmaceutical products for October 2006 to September 2007. We study the behavior of the...

Can a smartphone app improve medical trainees’ knowledge of antibiotics?

Objectives To determine whether a smartphone app, containing local bacterial resistance patterns (antibiogram) and treatment guidelines, improved knowledge of prescribing antimicrobials among medical trainees. Methods We conducted a prospective, controlled, pre-post study of medical trainees with access to a smartphone app (app group) containing our hospital's antibiogram and treatment guidel...