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Use fuzzy forecasting when historical data are scarce but experience knowledge is available, because the method tolerates imperfect data

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Description

The article recommends fuzzy time series forecasting where accurate historical data are hard to obtain, because experience knowledge can be used "from thevery beginning until theend of the whole forecasting process". The authors state that "the requirement for thehistorical data is not very strict": the same model could be built from gathered experience about enrollment development even without the data. This makes the method suitable for planning contexts with limited records.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Access to experience knowledge from persons acquainted with the phenomenon being forecast, or sufficient historical data to derive the fuzzy logical relationships.

Constraints

  • The stated advantage is demonstrated for one university's enrollment forecasting case.

Target Learners

  • higher education planners working with incomplete enrollment records

Target Learning Objectives

  • enrollment forecasting under imperfect historical data

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Key Sources

  • Song, Qiang; Chissom, Brad S. (1991). Forecasting Enrollments with Fuzzy Time Series. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED340733
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title Use fuzzy forecasting when historical data are scarce but experience knowledge is available, because the method tolerates imperfect data
description The article recommends fuzzy time series forecasting where accurate historical data are hard to obtain, because experience knowledge can be used "from thevery beginning until theend of the whole forecasting process".
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