[R] very beginner's question

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See ?ets in the forecast package.


On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Facetious Nickname
<facetious_nickname at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Begging the list's indulgence, an extremely dumb beginner's question.  I've got 24 months' worth of numbers - ranging from 2 events per month, to 66 events per month.  I want to take a stab at making a reasonable guess as to what the next year's data would be, approximately, i.e., based on the 24 months I've got, I want to be able to tell someone: "the 12 months after this will probably average about $number of events per month."  Assuming I'm able to navigate R with a minimum degree of proficiency, where would I start with this?  As you can doubtless tell, I'm not looking for anything sophisticated - just a reasonable estimate.  Am I going to be able to do better than a projected per-month guess based on $total/$number_of_months?
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> Thanks very much -
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