Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition
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Author: Steven Nahmias, Tava Lennon Olsen
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
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Chapter 2.9, Problem 33P
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To determine: Estimates for the monthly seasonal factorsassuming no trend in walking shorts sales over the two years
Introduction:There is simple method of computing seasonal factors for a time series with seasonal variations and no trend. This method requires minimumdata of two seasons and involves 3 steps i.e.
- Computation of sample mean of whole data
- Division of each observation by sample mean
- Average the factors for like periods within each season.
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