Abstract: The present invention describes a method and apparatus for constructing a historically based frequency distribution of unknown ultimate outcomes in a data set, the method comprising the acts of: (A) collecting relevant data about a series of known cohorts, where a new group of the data emerges at regular time intervals, measuring a characteristic of each group of the data at regular time intervals, and entering each said characteristic into a data set having at least two dimensions; (B) determining a number of frequency intervals N to be used to construct said distribution of unknown ultimate outcomes; (C) for each period I, constructing an aggregate distribution by: (a) calculating period-to-period ratios of the data characteristics; (b) identifying a range of ratio outcomes for cohort I; (c) constructing subintervals for cohort I; and (d) calculating all possible ratio outcomes for cohort I; and (D) constructing a convolution distribution of outcomes for all said possible ratio cohorts combined, by: (a) sel