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Chapter 11. Solved Problems. Exhibit 11.2 Example Linear and Nonlinear Trend Patterns. Exhibit 11.3 Seasonal Pattern of Home Natural Gas Usage. Exhibit Extra Trend and Business Cycle Characteristics (each data point is 1 year apart). Exhibit 11.4
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Chapter 11 Solved Problems
Exhibit Extra Trend and Business Cycle Characteristics (each data point is 1 year apart)
Exhibit 11.4 Call Center Volume Example of a time series with trend and seasonal components:
Basic Concepts in Forecasting • Forecast erroris the difference between the observed value of the time series and the forecast, orAt – Ft . Mean Square Error (MSE) Mean Absolute Deviation Error (MAD) Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) Σ(At – Ft )2 [11.1] MSE = T ׀At – Ft ׀ [11.2] MAD = T Σ׀(At – Ft )/At ׀X 100 [11.3] MAPE = T
Solved Problem Develop three-period and four-period moving-average forecasts and single exponential smoothing forecasts with a= 0.5. Compute the MAD, MAPE, and MSE for each. Which method provides a better forecast?
Solved Problem Based on these error metrics (MAD, MSE, MAPE), the 3-month moving average is the best method among the three.
Single Exponential Smoothing • Single Exponential Smoothing (SES)is a forecasting technique that uses a weighted average of past time-series values to forecast the value of the time series in the next period. Ft+1 = At + (1 – )Ft = Ft + (At – Ft) [11.5]
Exhibit 11.9 Summary of Single Exponential Smoothing Milk-Sales Forecasts with α = 0.2
Exhibit 11.10 Graph of Single Exponential Smoothing Milk-Sales Forecasts with α = 0.2
Regression as a Forecasting Approach • Regression analysisis a method for building a statistical model that defines a relationship between a single dependent variable and one or more independent variables, all of which are numerical. • Yt = a + bt (11.7) • Simple linear regression finds the best values of a and b using the method of least squares. • Excel provides a very simple tool to find the best-fitting regression model for a time series by selecting the Add Trendline option from the Chartmenu.
Exhibit 11.12 Format Trendline Dialog Box
Exhibit 11.13 Least-Squares Regression Model for Energy Cost Forecasting