<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml;charset=UTF-8"/> <title>Frepple / TestForecast6</title> <link rel='stylesheet' href='../styles.css' type='text/css' /> <!--PageHeaderFmt--> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="menubar"> <div id="logo" align="center"> <br/><img src='../frepple.bmp' alt="frepple" /><br/> <a href='http://www.frepple.com/'> <strong>a Free<br/>Production Planning<br/>Library</strong> </a></div> <div id="menu"> <br/> <h3><a href='../Main/HomePage.html'>Main</a></h3> <h3><a href='../UI/Main.html'>User Manual</a></h3> <h3><a href='../Tutorial/Main.html'>Tutorial</a></h3> <h3><a href='Main.html'>Reference Manual</a></h3> <h3><a href='../Main/FAQ.html'>FAQ</a></h3> <h3><a href='../reference/index.html'>C++ API</a></h3> <br/><div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <br/> <!--PageText--> <div id='wikitext'> <p><a class='wikilink' href='../Main/HomePage.html'>Main</a> > <span class='wikitrail'><a class='wikilink' href='Main.html'>Reference Manual</a> > <a class='wikilink' href='Test.html'>Unit tests</a> > <a class='selflink' href='TestForecast6.html'>TestForecast6</a></span> </p> <p class='vspace'>The M3-competition benchmark test for time series forecasts is run to compare the results with industry standard solutions. </p> <p class='vspace'>The dataset is available at <a target='_blank' class='urllink' href='http://forecastingprinciples.com/files/xls/M3C.xls' rel='nofollow'>http://forecastingprinciples.com/files/xls/M3C.xls</a><br />An academic paper discussing the results of a number of available forecasting toolkits is available at <a target='_blank' class='urllink' href='http://forecastingprinciples.com/files/Makridakia-The%20M3%20Competition.pdf' rel='nofollow'>http://forecastingprinciples.com/files/Makridakia-The%20M3%20Competition.pdf</a> </p> <p class='vspace'>The tests produce an output report that can be used to compare the results with the output of other tools. See table 6 in the paper mentioned above. The results show that frePPLe is able to produce a valid forecast that is competitive with other tools in the market. </p> </div> <!--PageFooterFmt--> <!--HTMLFooter--> </div></div> </body> </html>