topic Best Metric for forecasting in Administration and Deployment https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Best-Metric-for-forecasting/m-p/57523#M9655 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Would like to hear the pros can cons to the different types of metrics to use in forecasting. For example:</P><UL><LI>Taking daily or weekly trends</LI><LI>Weekday, complete week or specific day (Monday)</LI><LI>Only Prime shift, specific hours</LI><LI>Mean, Max, 90th percentile,,etc</LI></UL></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:16:37 GMT RodNeal 2011-11-30T20:16:37Z Best Metric for forecasting https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Best-Metric-for-forecasting/m-p/57523#M9655 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Would like to hear the pros can cons to the different types of metrics to use in forecasting. For example:</P><UL><LI>Taking daily or weekly trends</LI><LI>Weekday, complete week or specific day (Monday)</LI><LI>Only Prime shift, specific hours</LI><LI>Mean, Max, 90th percentile,,etc</LI></UL></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:16:37 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Best-Metric-for-forecasting/m-p/57523#M9655 RodNeal 2011-11-30T20:16:37Z Best Metric for forecasting https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Best-Metric-for-forecasting/m-p/57524#M9656 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Several years ago I developed this image to help describe to a customer what was gained or lost by the different types of metrics. In most cases I lean towards the 95th percentile for data that has very short durations (5 minutes)</P><P><IMG alt="metrics.jpg" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="461" onclick="" src="https://communities.sas.com/legacyfs/online/1336_metrics.jpg" width="664" /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:13:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Best-Metric-for-forecasting/m-p/57524#M9656 RodNeal 2011-12-12T14:13:51Z