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In the STEPAR method, PROC FORECAST first fits a time trend model to the series and takes the difference between each value and the estimated trend. (This process is called detrending.) Then, the ...

Every company that uses sales forecasts possesses its own technique to approach the forecasting process. Some companies have a dedicated team of forecast professionals while others use the sales staff ...

The ARIMA model equivalency to the additive version of Winters method is the ARIMA(0,1,p+1)(0,1,0) p model The moving-average form of the equation is For the additive version of Winters method (see ...