0 a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future, especially in connection with a particular situation, or the expected weather conditions -- (尤指对特定形势或天气的)预测,预报
1 to say what you expect to happen in the future -- 预测;预报
[ + to infinitive ] Oil prices are forecast to increase by less than two percent this year. 预计今年油价上涨不会超过2%。
Snow has been forecast for tonight. 预报今晚有雪。
They forecast a large drop in unemployment over the next two years. 他们预测今后两年失业人口会大幅下降。
In fact, parameter stability is desirable in order to obtain good forecasts.
Thus, we thought about ways to improve the accuracy of our forecasts.
Simulations of the adaptive belief system give rise to endogenous switches between forecasts at intervals of varying length.
Indeed, as unfolded later in this study, the market dynamics is a result of complex interaction between changing forecasts and investor ratios.
Rolling forecasts are forecasts made on the basis of the most recent fraction of the observations available in the sample size.
However, the means that are optimal relative to squared-error loss are not too far from the actual values being forecasted.
Table 1 presents the correlation matrices, means, and standard deviations for the models forecasting externalizing and internalizing symptoms.
Ominous forecasts about our graying population and the next recession.