misforecast

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/mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kæst//mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kɑːst/

verb

To forecast incorrectly; to make an erroneous prediction.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

verbmisforecast (third-person singular simple present misforecasts, present participle misforecasting, simple past and past participle misforecast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) misforecasted)

present singular third person misforecasts · participle present misforecasting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes misforecasted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes misforecasted

  1. To forecast incorrectly; to make an erroneous prediction.

    Are any elections misforecast? Yes, the elections of 1960 and 1968 are misforecast.

    2008, Brad Lockerbie, Do Voters Look to the Future?: Economics and Elections, page 117
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    Maybe she ordered too many, or misforecast and picked wrong colors, or woke up to find that trend she hopped on changed overnight and she's stuck with an order that won't sell anywhere at any price.

    1999, Barbara Jaye Wilson, Capped Off, page 81

    In the more general case, the agent may misforecast demand and consequently view the tradeoff between a higher co-pay and a lower premium as being more or less favorable than it actually is.

    2019, Amitbh Chandra, Benjamin Handel, Joshua Schwartzstein, “Behavioral economics and health-care markets”, in B. Doublas Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, David Laibson, editors, Handbook of Behavioral Economics, page 492
nounmisforecast (plural misforecasts)

plural misforecasts

  1. The act of misforecasting.

    Energy overpayments result primarily from the misforecast of oil prices.

    1988, Joint CEC/CPUC Hearings on Excess Generating Capacity: (SB 1970), page 55
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    He offered his plans for revision to the authorities, but the adoption of his ideas was unfortunately postponed because of his misforecast of the solar eclipse of June 1675 .

    1964, Monumenta Nipponica, page 300

    The numbers can be roughly interpreted as the degree of misforecast of the level of aggregate demand.

    1991, Kazuo Ueda, Japanese Monetary Policy During 1970-1990: Rules Or Discretion?, page 3

    Average task completion time (in seconds) versus the probability of sample misforecast for different number of misforecasts (k) and ratio of human and robot operational capabilities (f human /f robot ).

    2020, Muhammad Maaz Rehan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Blockchain-enabled Fog and Edge Computing
  2. The result of misforecasting; misprediction.

    If you misforecast right now's load you really inject x plus or minus the amount of the misforecast.

    1995, Energy Modeling, page 3
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    The misforecast of 7.25 million crudely equals the total population of North and South Carolina, or New York (1970 censu ), or Austria.

    1978, National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life, The Future of Productivity: Report of a National Conference, page 122

    We use the actual misforecast instead of the actual change in the spot rate because the speculator invests in deposits according to the forward premium.

    1998, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, page 58

Origin

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