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Stock market forecasting has been a challenging financial research topic for decades. In the literature, there are numerous results based on point methods. However, poor forecasting quality has been a continuous problem. Motivated by the fact that financial data varies within intervals, we apply interval methods on a well known stock pricing model [3] to predict stock market variability as intervals. Empirical results obtained with a few different approaches in this paper consistently suggest that interval forecasts have better overall quality than traditional point forecasts.
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Hu, C., He, L.T. An Application of Interval Methods to Stock Market Forecasting. Reliable Comput 13, 423–434 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11155-007-9039-4
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