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"In statistics, prediction is a part of statistical inference. One particular approach to such inference is known as predictive inference, but the prediction can be undertaken within any of the several approaches to statistical inference. Indeed, one description of statistics is that it provides a means of transferring knowledge about a sample of a population to the whole population, and to other related populations, which is not the same as prediction over time. When information is transferred across time, often to specific points in time, the process is known as forecasting."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction#Statistics

It's not forecasting if it doesn't involve time, but it is if it does. That's why you can find evidence saying "Prediction == Forecasting" because that is true if there is a time component.