Business Analytics: Forecasting with Seasonal Baseline Smoothing

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Free Online Course: Business Analytics: Forecasting with Seasonal Baseline Smoothing provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Business Analytics: Forecasting with Seasonal Baseline Smoothing is taught by Conrad Carlberg.

Overview
  • Learn how to perform seasonal baseline smoothing with R and Excel and incorporate seasonal variation for more accurate and insightful forecasts.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Why seasonal baseline smoothing will help your regression
    • Software setup
    1. Approaches to Seasonal Smoothing
    • Seasonality in a baseline
    • Defined names and relative references
    • Diagnosing seasonality
    • Simple seasonal indexes
    • Seasonal smoothing and horizontal baselines
    2. Optimizing Seasonal Forecasts
    • Minimizing RMSE
    • The Excel Forecast Sheet
    • Prepare to make a seasonal forecast in R
    Conclusion
    • Next steps