Forrest, David; Sanz, Ismael; Tena, J.D. - In: International Journal of Forecasting 26 (2010) 3, pp. 576-588
The paper reports the results of an exercise to forecast national team medal totals at the Beijing Olympic Games, 2008. Forecasts were released to the media before the competitions commenced. The starting point was an established statistical model based on a regression analysis of medal totals...