A Hospital Records the Number of Floral Deliveries Its Patients

question 45

Essay

A hospital records the number of floral deliveries its patients receive each day. For a two-week period, the records show
15, 27, 26, 24, 18, 21, 26, 19, 15, 28, 25, 26, 17, 23
Use exponential smoothing with a smoothing constant of .4 to forecast the number of deliveries.

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