Forecast Pro offers the following curve fitting approaches: Best-fit line, Quadratic, Exponential and Growth. Each of these methods can be selected from the Curve fitting drop-down on the More icon drop-down or from Forecasting>Curve Fit on the Navigator’s context menu.
Select Auto from the Curve fitting drop-down on the More icon drop-down or select Forecasting>Curve Fit>Auto on the Navigator’s context menu to use the curve fitting routine that best fits the historic data.
The modifiers for moving average models are:
\CFIT. Use the curve fitting routine that best fits the historic data.
\CFIT=LINE. Fit a best-fit straight line to the data set.
\CFIT=QUAD. Fit a quadratic curve to the data set.
\CFIT=EXPO. Fit an exponential curve to the data set.
\CFIT=GROW. Fit a growth curve (S-curve) to the data set.