The director of an emergency room, Simran Kaur, has observed that patient traffic at the emergency room

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The director of an emergency room, Simran Kaur, has observed that patient traffic at the emergency room follows a seasonal pattern with a higher patient traffic during weekends than weekdays. She has gathered the following data on daily patient admissions during the last 4 weeks:

Week Day 4 3 105 110 112 109 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 95 100 92 88 80 78 152 268 89 85 84 93 96 155 260 90 150


Given this information:
1. Compute the daily seasonal indices of patient admissions using the simple average method.

2. Compute the daily seasonal indices of patient admissions using the centered moving average method.

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Operations Management Managing Global Supply Chains

ISBN: 978-1506302935

1st edition

Authors: Ray R. Venkataraman, Jeffrey K. Pinto

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