Sentence examples for rather than forecasting from inspiring English sources

The hope of policymakers until recently was that research would identify precursor signals that could predict earthquakes with near certainty.Damned if you do, damned if you don'tDr Jordan argues that a focus on prediction rather than forecasting held sway in Italy in the days before the quake at L'Aquila.

We develop and apply a Monte Carlo approach that describes ensemble statistics for several dozen urban areas rather than forecasting changes in individual urban areas.

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of border adjustment policies when a carbon tax is in place rather than forecasting the performance of the whole economy overtime under the tax.

The United States is shown as having a relatively accommodative policy, as you can see; however, that conclusion is driven in part by the use of current rather than forecast inflation in the Taylor rule, the point I discussed earlier.

The Scottish government has published slightly different figures which reflect what has been measured rather than forecasts.

In short, they are "projections" rather than "forecasts".

Discussions with stakeholders (Dewhurst, [2007]) emphasized that weather forecasts were used by stakeholders on an operational level, but mostly to minimize danger due to high winds and high seas rather than to forecast ice movement.

From numerical clusters, and – as Ricolfi's article clearly demonstrates – from comparisons between numerical clusters one can mine information that can be used to cope with complexity rather than to forecast a future which in spite of everything remains unpredictable [59].

The purpose of the demonstration scenario presented in this paper was to illustrate the functionality of the model, rather than to forecast when individual countries might adopt a malaria vaccine.

In particular, he notes the administration's apparent emphasis on climate "news you can use," such as regional forecasts, rather than global forecasts.

The oil giant also confirmed that production had grown by only 3% in 2002 rather than a forecast 5.5%—the company repeatedly cut production forecasts last year, to investors' annoyance.Sachs appealGoldman Sachs invested ¥150 billion ($1.3 billion) in Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, in return for convertible shares equivalent to a 7% stake in the Japanese bank.