Discussion

Laura

After reading the FAQs to the Business Forecasting website I was able to learn a lot. I am able to summarize a couple of the questions being asked like:

Is it important to use much data?

According to the FAQ, it can be said that it is important to use data especially when it covers a long wide of coverage about situations so that it can reduce risks of the outcomes or local anomalies. To make sure there is accuracy in the forecasting you would need a wide range of data to make sure that you can cover every little aspect to make sure that everything goes accordingly.

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What methods are commonly used for forecasting?

The FAQ focuses on how judgmental and statistical data in forecasting are important, both approaches can be used together in a situation because they overlap somewhere in their roles. Its able to help with some of the forecasting barriers associated with a single method.