Clarify values used in the evaluation in the forecast example
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In the evaluation method data from the second year is transformed by the model.
Previewing the predictions I see 7 values for ForecastedRentals in the results. I assumed that is because of the horizon = 7.

What do the values represent? Is that one week after the training data, i.e forecast starts at 2012-01-01?
Or is it forecasting after the second year has been added by transforming the testdata, i.e forecast starts at 2013-01-01?
In either case it looks like the example code only looks at the first day of each prediction (ForecastedRentals[0]).
Can that really be compared with actual values from the testdata, which has period 1 day rather than 7 days?
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