A predictor is a number computed for each security at a decision time from data known at that time, intended to be correlated across securities with a later quantity, its prediction target (usually a return). The forecast horizon is the span of the target: the return over the next day, the next five days, the next month.
Quantitative Finance · Glossary
What is Predictor, prediction target, forecast horizon?
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