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Forecasts need to have error bars(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Blog post by Andrew P. Wheeler arguing that forecasts, such as Richard Rosenfeld's national crime rate forecasts in The Criminologist, should include error bars.
Counting Lines of Code(andrewpwheeler.com)
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