| Article ID: | iaor20031242 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 197 |
| End Page Number: | 202 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2001 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Forecasting |
| Authors: | Snyder Ralph D., Shami Roland G. |
| Keywords: | seasonality |
A parsimonious method of exponential smoothing is introduced for time series generated from a combination of local trends and local seasonal effects. It is compared with the additive version of the Holt–Winters method of forecasting on a standard collection of real time series.