| Forecast Pro | Minitab | NCSS | Statgraphics | Systat | Author's | |||
| Date | Auto | Manual | Auto | Manual | Auto | Manual | Manual | Auto |
| 2007-Oct | 65,352 | 66,028 | 65,041 | 63,808 | 65,205 | 66,366 | 66,553 | 66,166 |
| 2007-Nov | 63,345 | 64,185 | 63,058 | 76,383 | 63,111 | 66,968 | 63,774 | 63,706 |
| 2007-Dec | 64,767 | 66,146 | 64,363 | 77,586 | 64,516 | 67,574 | 64,371 | 65,058 |
| 2008-Jan | 59,883 | 61,520 | 59,763 | 73,805 | 59,749 | 68,174 | 59,733 | 59,927 |
| 2008-Feb | 57,875 | 60,874 | 57,538 | 71,048 | 57,950 | 68,780 | 58,467 | 58,777 |
| 2008-Mar | 71,287 | 75,384 | 71,112 | 69,728 | 71,747 | 69,397 | 71,843 | 72,108 |
| 2008-Apr | 67,801 | 72,498 | 67,780 | 71,729 | 68,603 | 69,993 | 68,468 | 68,700 |
| 2008-May | 69,212 | 74,759 | 69,231 | 59,110 | 70,403 | 70,598 | 69,719 | 70,201 |
| 2008-Jun | 72,619 | 79,445 | 72,533 | 60,444 | 74,179 | 71,204 | 73,253 | 73,946 |
| 2008-Jul | 76,050 | 84,017 | 75,893 | 66,173 | 77,835 | 71,809 | 76,826 | 77,530 |
| 2008-Aug | 74,059 | 82,702 | 73,828 | 63,497 | 75,720 | 72,410 | 74,658 | 75,704 |
| 2008-Sep | 60,986 | 67,208 | 61,436 | 67,737 | 62,246 | 73,001 | 61,548 | 60,867 |
| RMSE | 2156.19 | 2215.66 | 2219.67 | 8187.40 | 2353.91 | 5693.04 | 1945.12 | 1923.82 |
| Table 1 - Winters' method forecasts and RMSE from several programs. The Manual column implies the same three smoothing constants (a=0.54593, b=0.0001, g=0.0001) were used. | ||||||||