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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Forecasting

Preferred term

Forecasting  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Predictions and Projections
  • Projections and Predictions

Note

  • IM general only; consider also as IM coord with specific subject /trends (IM) if future is particularly significant: Manual 19.8.76, 35.2.9

Scope note

  • The prediction or projection of the nature of future problems or existing conditions based upon the extrapolation or interpretation of existing scientific data or by the application of scientific methodology.

History note

  • 80; was FUTUROLOGY 1971-79

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005544

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