Principles Of Operations Management
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Author: RENDER, Barry, HEIZER, Jay, Munson, Chuck
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Chapter 4, Problem 31P
Emergency calls to the 911 system of Durham, North Carolina, for the past 24 weeks are shown in the following table:
a) Compute the exponentially smoothed
b) Reforecast each period using α = .6.
c) Actual calls during week 25 were 85. Which smoothing constant provides a superior forecast? Explain and justify the measure of error you used.
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