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What is a "good" estimate?: whether forecasting is valuable

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Whether forecasting is valuable.

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                cover image Communications of the ACM
                Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 6
                June 2013
                104 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/2461256
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