Exponential Smoothing

This is a widely used and successful technique that is similar to weighted moving average. The intuition behind this technique is that one is relying upon “todays observed” and “yesterdays forecasted value of today” to calculate forecast for tomorrow. By nature this method ends up weighing recent observations more heavily that previous ones.

1. We will now take a look at the Exponential Smoothing of time series data

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