Chapter 64. Ratio-to-moving-average forecast method

Questions answered in this chapter:

Image What is the trend of a time series?

Image How do I define seasonal indexes for a time series?

Image Is there an easy way to incorporate trend and seasonality into forecasting future product sales?

Often you need a simple, accurate method to predict the future quarterly revenues of a corporation or future monthly sales of a product. The ratio-to-moving-average method provides ...

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