Backrest vs Backtest - What's the difference?
backrest | backtest |
To test a strategy, model etc. using data from a previous time.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 18, author=Mark Hulbert, title=An Alarm Is Blaring: Time to Buy, work=New York Times
, passage=(Mr. Fosback has also backtested this indicator to the late 1940s, the earliest period for which data on the coincident economic indicators were available, and it performed just as well from then until the late ’70s as it did in more recent decades.) }}
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As a noun backrest
is the back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.As a verb backtest is
to test a strategy, model etc using data from a previous time.backtest
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