How Forecasts is compared with predicted values? why these both terms are different?

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How Forecasts is compared with predicted values? why these both terms are different?

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A forecast is an estimation that is based on the previous data. A prediction is estimating the outcomes for unseen data.

So, we can say that All forecasts are predictions, but not all predictions are forecasts.

 

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