In: Statistics and Probability
There are quarters of sales data
500,350,250,400
450,350,200,300
350,200,150,400
550,350,250,550
550,400,350,600
750,500,400,650,850
Using Minitab 18.0 Winter's time series forecasting method forecast 3 quarters ahead
The weights are level=.2;trend=.2;seasonal=.2
1 500
2 350
3 250
4 400
5 450
6 350
7 200
8 300
9 350
10 200
11 150
12 400
13 550
14 350
15 250
16 550
17 550
18 400
19 350
20 600
21 750
22 500
23 400
24 650
25 850
Winters’ Method for C2
Multiplicative Method
Data C2
Length 25
Smoothing Constants
α (level) 0.2
γ (trend) 0.2
δ (seasonal) 0.2
Accuracy Measures
MAPE 19.0
MAD 76.7
MSD 10429.7
Forecasts
Period Forecast Lower
Upper
26 572.846 385.011
760.68
27 436.613 245.835
627.39
28 818.166 624.107 1012.23
Winters’ Method Plot for C2