The surgical intensive care unit would like to better prepared by forecasting the number of surgical patients ...

     The surgical intensive care unit would like to better   prepared by forecasting the number of surgical patients they should expect.   The past 15 days shows the following numbers of surgeries performed. Conduct   a 3 period moving average, an exponential smoothing forecasting using an   alpha of .25, and a seasonal forecast with 3 seasons.       day surgeries   1 10   2 8    3 12    4 10   5 9    6 14   7 11    8 10    9 15   10 13   11 13   12 16   13 14    14 13   15 18