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The Excel Forecast.Ets.Seasonality Function

Function Description

The Excel Forecast.Ets.Seasonality function calculates the length of a repetitive pattern in a timeline.

The syntax of the function is:

Where the function arguments are:

values	-	The array of historical known values.
timeline	-	The independent array of dates/times, corresponding to each of the values. This must satisfy the following: The timeline array must have the same length as the values array; The dates/times in the timeline must have a consistent step length between them, although: Up to 30% of points may be missing and dealt with, according to the value of the [data completion] argument. There may be duplicates in the timeline, whose corresponding values will be aggregated, as defined by the [aggregation] argument. The dates/times in the timeline can be in any order.
[data completion]	-	An optional argument specifying how the algorithm should handle missing points in the timeline. If supplied, the [data completion] argument can have the value 0 or 1 meaning: [data completion] Algorithm 0 Treat missing points as having the value zero. 1 (or omitted) Calculate the value for missing points to be the average of the neighbouring values.
[aggregation]	-	An optional argument specifying how the algorithm should aggregate values that have the same timestamp. If supplied, this can be any integer between 1 and 7 meaning: [aggregation] Aggregation Method 1 (or omitted) Average 2 Count 3 Counta 4 Max 5 Median 6 Min 7 Sum

Notes:

• The pattern calculated by the Forecast.Ets.Seasonality function is the same pattern that is calculated automatically by the Forecast.Ets function).
• If the Forecast.Ets.Seasonality function requires a reasonable number of data values to identify a seasonal pattern. Greater numbers of values will result in greater accuracy in the result.
• If the Forecast.Ets.Seasonality function is unable to detect a repetitive pattern, it returns the value 0.
• The Forecast.Ets.Seasonality function was first introduced in Excel 2016, so is not available in earlier versions of Excel. It is also not available in Excel 2016 for Mac.

Excel Forecast.Ets.Seasonality Function Example

The above spreadsheet on the right shows a set of monthly earnings between Jan-2015 and Apr-2017. These values are plotted in the chart below:

The Excel Forecast.Ets.Seasonality function can be used to forecast length of the seasonal pattern in earnings between Jan-2015 and Apr-2017, as follows:

This gives the result 11.

Note that, in the above example:

• The function has returned the a seasonality value of 11 for the data supplied (although we might have expected the seasonal pattern to be 12 for this data). The calculated seasonality value should have greater accuracy as more data values are supplied to the function.
• The [data completion] and [aggregation] arguments have been omitted from the function and so use the default values. (I.e. [data completion] = 1 and [aggregation] = 0).

For further details of the Excel Forecast.Ets.Seasonality function, see the Microsoft Office website

Forecast.Ets.Seasonality Function Errors

If you get an error from the Forecast.Ets.Seasonality function, this is likely to be one of the following:

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