Practical Management Science
Practical Management Science
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ISBN: 9781337406659
Author: WINSTON, Wayne L.
Publisher: Cengage,
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The actual number of patients at Providence Emergency Medical Clinic for the first six weeks of this year
follows:
Week
Actual No. of Patients
85
89
96
80
86
93
Clinic administrator Dana Schniederjans wants you to forecast patient numbers at the clinic for week 7 by
using this data. You decide to use a weighted moving average method to find this forecast. Your method
uses four actual demand levels, with weights of 0.333 on the present period, 0.250 one period ago, 0.250
two periods ago, and 0.167 three periods ago.
a) What is the value of your forecast?
The value of the forecast is patients (round your response to two decimal places).
-23 456
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Transcribed Image Text:The actual number of patients at Providence Emergency Medical Clinic for the first six weeks of this year follows: Week Actual No. of Patients 85 89 96 80 86 93 Clinic administrator Dana Schniederjans wants you to forecast patient numbers at the clinic for week 7 by using this data. You decide to use a weighted moving average method to find this forecast. Your method uses four actual demand levels, with weights of 0.333 on the present period, 0.250 one period ago, 0.250 two periods ago, and 0.167 three periods ago. a) What is the value of your forecast? The value of the forecast is patients (round your response to two decimal places). -23 456
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