• Hi Martin,

    I appreciate your comments and words of pause. It is important to realize that picking up this forecast model will not get you a job as a forecaster ;P

    This article was not intended to be a replacement for a forecast system or to ignore the tools available in analysis services. It was intended to be an entry point into the world of forecasting, in the case where analysis services is not an option. You are certainly aware that linear regression is only one of many models to apply and that each model differs in it's usefulness for each application.

    Hopefully, folks will find this exercise useful in understanding the some of the basic language of forecasting and, fundamentally, what this model is and how it works. Learning about a new skill can be daunting, but I hope that we will not be discouraged from starting merely by the possible depth of the subject.

    Mark