15.3. Conclusion

Various quantitative forecasting methods exist. Native techniques are based solely on previous experience. Smoothing approaches include moving averages and exponential smoothing. Moving averages and exponential smoothing employ a weighted average of past data as the means of deriving the forecast.

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