A research on the grey prediction model GM(1,n)

Abstract The grey theory can be applied in the research of prediction, decision-making and control, especially in prediction. The primary characteristic of a grey system is the incompleteness of information. A grey system could be whitened by way of inserting more messages in itself and its accuracy of prediction could be raised. The solution to the existing grey prediction model GM(1,n) is inaccurate and then its prediction accuracy cannot be expected. To solve the existing GM(1,n) by assuming step by step the first order accumulated generating operation data of the associated series to be constants is incorrect. The existing model GM(1,n) is seriously wrong even for a system having a nonnegative associated series with constant entries. There are currently only a few wrong papers based on the existing GM(1,n) model to be published. Almost all the improved prediction models based on the existing GM(1,n) model are correct. For example, the improved models are correct by convolution integral or fitting their forcing terms by several elementary functions. The algorithm of GMC(1,n) is applied to explain why the existing GM(1,n) model is incorrect in this article.