Impact matrix
Origin: Lat. tardío impactus, factor, -ōris
A general term encompassing matrixes in which entries in the rows are examined to determine the possibility of impacting on the elements in the columns. The family includes input/output matrixes in which elements of an economy are arrayed against the economy's output products, cross-impact matrixes in which the conditional interactions among future events is displayed, and trend impact matrixes in which a set of future events is displayed against variables to display judgments about how the events might affect the course of the variables.
Spanish: Matriz de impacto
Sources and references
- Gordon, Theodore. “Cross impact analysis”, Futures Research Methodology V.3 The Millennium Projectcited 7 times
- J. Scott Armstrong, "Principles of Forecasting,"view
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