Forecast Linear Function - Lookup & specify range through formula

MrCool888

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Hi Mr Excel Forum,

I'm a new member and hope that you kind souls are able to help me with this hopefully easy question.

I'm trying to create a statistical forecasting function using the FORECAST.LINEAR function, and the idea is to work with high volumes of data so I believe the exact cell ranges of "known_ys" and "known_xs" needs to be looked up in some way in a big table instead of as is presented in below snippet.
As the input to "known_ys" is a range of cells, I have tried to replace the C9:F9, i.e. the "known_ys" with a combination of CELL/INDEX/MATCH to get the row as well as the start and end column of the range, but I don't get it to work for the FORECAST.LINEAR function by just replacing "C9:F9" with the output in cell G18 and H18. The idea is to do the same for the known_xs once I found a solution.

Formulas used in snippet:
G18: =CELL("address";(INDEX($B$6:$F$13;MATCH($B15;$B$6:$B$13;0);2)))
H18: =CELL("address";(INDEX($B$6:$F$13;MATCH($B15;$B$6:$B$13;0);5)))

Anyone can help me? I suppose I may be on the wrong track... See below for a snippet explaining the situation.


Kind regards,
MrCool888
 

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Hi,
(sorry for not using XL2BB for the moment, I'm not on my home computer)

Not sure why you don't have the grand totals in your data table? Meaning, why would you have repeated part references? So I might be completely off here.
- So I did a sum first for the selected part number.
Excel Formula:
=SUMIFS(C6:C13;$B$6:$B$13;$B$16)
- Then used the forecast fx: x= value you want to forecast or predict, known Ys are the know values, known Xs are the known intervals, in your case the years. The iferror part is to have the first value repeated and not the error returned by forecast, since for the first value there are no known values.
Excel Formula:
=IFERROR(FORECAST.LINEAR(C5;$C$16:C16;$C$5:C5);C16)
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