Questions
1. What is your opinion of the level at which the data are being collected? What are some of the advantages of collecting data at this level?
2. Aggregate the original data for October as you see appropriate (e.g., sum up by day of week, time of day, week of the month, etc.). This will give you a new data setto work with. Analyze your data for patterns. Can you find any?
3. Forecast the hourly patient arrivals for November. You must clearly explain and justify your forecasting model.
4. Calculate the forecast accuracy measures FE, MAD, CE, TS, if you were touse your model in question 3to forecast the patient arrivals in October. What can you deduce from these measures
What is your opinion of the level at which the data are being collected?
