Prescriptive analytics
is the area of business analytics (BA) dedicated to finding the best course of
action for a given situation. Prescriptive analytics is related to both
descriptive and predictive analytics.
Descriptive analytics |
Provides insight into
what has happened. |
Predictive analytics |
Helps model and
forecast what might happen. |
Prescriptive analytics |
Seeks to determine the
best outcome among various choices, given the known parameters. |
Prescriptive analytics
is used to suggest decision options for how to take advantage of a future
opportunity or mitigate a future risk, and illustrate the implications of each
decision option. In practice, prescriptive analytics can continually and automatically
process new data to improve the accuracy of predictions and provide better
decision options.
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