Unlike most of our other forecasting products, which tend to blend polls with various types of economic or demographic data, our primary forecasts look at polls and polls alone.
Ms. Singer of Jupiter Research said that despite "a primary forecast of gloom and doom" for health-information concerns in general, one can detect glimmers of hope for the company in its brand and in the nature of parenthood itself.
Using de Jouvenel's [58] typology, 'dodo' is a primary forecast: this is the undesirable 'business-as-usual' future, which becomes real if nothing is done.
Computer modeling of storm surge can be used for two primary purposes: forecasting of surge as storms approach land for emergency planning and evacuation of coastal populations, and hindcasting of storms for determining risk, development of mitigation strategies, coastal restoration and sustainability.
Let's start by looking at what our polling-based forecasts of South Carolina said prior to the New Hampshire primary: The forecasts had Mr. Romney with 32 percent of the vote in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich with 24 percent and Rick Santorum with 20 percent.
Primary Day forecasts called for sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-80s, clearing away any weather-related obstacles to voting.
This fog computing model is used for the aggregation of primary data, forecast trends controlled variables as well as to warn about abnormal and emergency situations on distributed SCADA systems objects.
Nate Silver's primary election forecasts highlight just how uncertain the outcomes are this time.
The uncertainty in these forecasts highlights Silver's point that forecasting primary elections is very difficult.
A useful frame for categorising futures thinking is de Jouvenel's [58: 55] division of forecasts into primary, secondary and tertiary (historical) forecasts.
Four primary types of forecasts exist for tropical cyclones: track, intensity, storm surge, and rainfall.
