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Chapter 1 Introduction

Whenever we talk about statistics, analytics or forecasting, we deal with models that are constructed based on available information. So, it is important to understand what a model is, what types of models exist and how to measure information in order to use it in models afterwards. This is what we will discuss in this chapter.