What is Look-Ahead bias in financial research?

Muhammad Wajid Raza @Muhammad_Raza26

10 October 2016 1 1K Report

What is Look-Ahead bias in financial/economics research? what is the best technique to reduce the bias in the analysis?

Stephen Politzer-Ahles

I typed "look-ahead bias financial" into Google and saw a lot of pages that appear to explain this.

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