Examples of forecast in the following topics:
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- Forecasts try to estimate the rate of population growth, but this is understandably difficult to predict.
- However, this forecast, like all population forecasts, is subject to change.
- Any of these changes could affect fertility rates and therefore alter forecasts of population growth.
- At the same time, other factors could affect mortality rates, which would also alter population forecasts.
- This type of unanticipated change can reduce the accuracy of population forecasts.
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- The political and economic circumstances of peace following a war are highly situational—post-war political and economic realities can not be forecasted.
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- All of this additional training will prepare a PhD in Sociology for advanced careers in fields as diverse as corporate marketing and statistical forecasting to community organizing and lobbying.
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- Some additional direct applications of sociology include concept and product testing (which will put to good use training in research methods), the evaluating of global market opportunities (which will draw upon understandings of various cultures), long-range planning and forecasting (which draws on both statistics and futurist perspectives), marketing and advertising (which applies consumer studies directly), and human resource management (which relies on studies of organizational behavior).
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- Predictive analytics focuses on the application of statistical or structural models for predictive forecasting or classification.
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- Some additional direct applications of sociology include concept and product testing (which will put to good use training in research methods), the evaluating of global market opportunities (which will draw upon understandings of various cultures), long-range planning and forecasting (which draws on both statistics and futurist perspectives), marketing and advertising (which applies consumer studies directly), and human resource management (which relies on studies of organizational behavior).