Forecast Pretesting and Correction
Sometimes it is suggested that end users can improve forecasts by some kind of corrections. At least implicitly, the idea is to use such corrections if the forecasts appear too inaccurate by some criteria. Alternative forecasts can be defined based on whether a preliminary test of forecast usefulness and a subsequent correction has been made. The mean squared errors of some such forecasts are studied using some recent results on inequality pretesting. Uncorrected forecasts…