Business Analytics: Forecasting with Trended Baseline Smoothing

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Free Online Course: Business Analytics: Forecasting with Trended Baseline Smoothing provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth 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 Trended Baseline Smoothing is taught by Conrad Carlberg.

Overview
  • Learn about a forecasting technique that recognizes and accounts for trends in a baseline, as well as how to run the trend forecast analysis in R.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Why trended baseline smoothing will help your regression
    • Software setup
    1. Simple Exponential Smoothing (SES) and Trend
    • A review of SES with a stationary baseline
    • Problems using SES with a trended baseline
    • Forecasting differences
    • Using R for SES
    • Using ARIMA(0,1,1) for SES
    2. Understanding the Forecast Equation
    • Distinguish between a level component and a trend component
    • The trend constant compared to the level constant
    • Compare smoothing and error correction forms
    • Initialize the trend forecasts
    • Build the full worksheet and optimize with Solver
    3. Running the Trend Forecast Analysis in R
    • Prepare for analysis with R
    • Run and interpret the analysis in R
    Conclusion
    • Next steps