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The M3-competition benchmark test for time series forecasts is run to compare the results with industry standard solutions.
The dataset is available at http://forecastingprinciples.com/files/xls/M3C.xls
An academic paper discussing the results of a number of available forecasting toolkits is available at http://forecastingprinciples.com/files/Makridakia-The%20M3%20Competition.pdf
The tests produce an output report that can be used to compare the results with the output of other tools. See table 6 in the paper mentioned above. The results show that frePPLe is able to produce a valid forecast that is competitive with other tools in the market.