In: Statistics and Probability
Forecasting.
Lakeside Hospital has used a 9 month, moving average forecasting method to predict drug and surgical dressing inventory requirements. The actual demand for one item is as shown in table 4 -18. Using the previous moving average data, convert to an exponential smoothing forecast for month 33.
Month |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
Demand |
78 |
65 |
90 |
71 |
80 |
101 |
84 |
60 |
73 |
Exponential smoothing forecast for month 33 is 76
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