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A forecast bias occurs when there are consistent differences between actual outcomes and previously generated forecasts of those quantities; that is: forecasts may have a general tendency to be too high or too low. A normal property of a good forecast is that it is not biased.〔APICS Dictionary 12th Edition, American Production and Inventory Control Society. Available for download at (''www.apics.org/Resources/APICSDictionary.htm'' ).〕 As a quantitative measure, the "forecast bias" can be specified as a probabilistic or statistical property of the forecast error. A typical measure of bias of forecasting procedure is the arithmetic mean or expected value of the forecast errors, but other measures of bias are possible. For example, a median-unbiased forecast would be one where half of the forecasts are too low and half too high: see Bias of an estimator. In contexts where forecasts are being produced on a repetitive basis, the performance of the forecasting system may be monitored using a tracking signal, which provides an automatically maintained summary of the forecasts produced up to any given time. This can be used to monitor for deteriorating performance of the system. == See also == *Calculating demand forecast accuracy *Consensus forecast *Optimism bias *Demand forecasting *Forecast skill 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「forecast bias」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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