Forecasting With Exponential Smoothing Whats The Right Smoothing Constant?

Volatility Forecasting with Smooth Transition Exponential Smoothing

Adaptive exponential smoothing methods allow smoothing parameters to change over time, in order to adapt to changes in the characteristics of the time series. This paper presents a new adaptive method for predicting the volatility in financial returns. It enables the smoothing parameter to vary as a logistic function of user-specified variables. The approach is analogous to that used to model t...

Forecasting with exponential smoothing methods and bootstrap

The Boot.EXPOS procedure is an algorithm that combines the use of exponential smoothing methods with the bootstrap methodology for obtaining forecasts. In previous works the authors have studied and analyzed the interaction between these two methodologies. The initial sketch of the procedure was developed, modified and evaluated until its final form designated as Boot.EXPOS.

Forecasting for Inventory Control with Exponential Smoothing

Exponential smoothing model selection for forecasting

Applications of exponential smoothing to forecasting time series usually rely on three basic methods: simple exponential smoothing, trend corrected exponential smoothing and a seasonal variation thereof. A common approach to selecting the method appropriate to a particular time series is based on prediction validation on a withheld part of the sample using criteria such as the mean absolute per...

Forecasting Intermittent Demand by Hyperbolic-Exponential Smoothing

Croston’s method is generally viewed as superior to exponential smoothing when demand is intermittent, but it has the drawbacks of bias and an inability to deal with obsolescence, in which an item’s demand ceases altogether. Several variants have been reported, some of which are unbiased on certain types of demand, but only one recent variant addresses the problem of obsolescence. We describe a...