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2. 4 year Exponential Moving Average forecast Example





1) 4 year Exponential Moving Average forecast
year12345678910
Sales20212322252427262830
Calculate 4 year Exponential Moving Average forecast


Solution:
`alpha=2/(n+1)=2/(4+1)=0.4`

(1)
year
(2)
Sales
(3)
Exponential Smoothing
`(alpha=0.4)`
12020
221`0.4*20+0.6*20=20`
323`0.4*21+0.6*20=20.4`
422`0.4*23+0.6*20.4=21.44`
525`0.4*22+0.6*21.44=21.664`
624`0.4*25+0.6*21.664=22.9984`
727`0.4*24+0.6*22.9984=23.399`
826`0.4*27+0.6*23.399=24.8394`
928`0.4*26+0.6*24.8394=25.3037`
1030`0.4*28+0.6*25.3037=26.3822`
11`0.4*30+0.6*26.3822=27.8293`


(1)
year
(2)
Sales
(3)
Exponential Smoothing
(4)
Error
(5)
|Error|
(6)
`"Error"^2`
(7)
`|%"Error"|`
12020
22120
32320.4
42221.44
52521.664`25-21.664=3.336``3.336``11.1289``13.34%`
62422.9984`24-22.9984=1.0016``1.0016``1.0032``4.17%`
72723.399`27-23.399=3.601``3.601``12.9669``13.34%`
82624.8394`26-24.8394=1.1606``1.1606``1.3469``4.46%`
92825.3037`28-25.3037=2.6963``2.6963``7.2703``9.63%`
103026.3822`30-26.3822=3.6178``3.6178``13.0885``12.06%`
1127.8293Total`15.4133``46.8048``57.01%`


Forecasting errors

1. Mean absolute error (MAE), also called mean absolute deviation (MAD)
MAE`=1/n sum |e_i|=15.4133/6=2.5689`


2. Mean squared error (MSE)
MSE`=1/n sum |e_i^2|=46.8048/6=7.8008`


3. Root mean squared error (RMSE)
RMSE`=sqrt(MSE)=sqrt(7.8008)=2.793`


4. Mean absolute percentage error (MAPE)
MAPE`=1/n sum |e_i/y_i|=57.01/6=9.5`




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