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//  OpenForecast - open source, general-purpose forecasting package.
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package net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests;


import net.sourceforge.openforecast.ForecastingModel;
import net.sourceforge.openforecast.DataPoint;
import net.sourceforge.openforecast.DataSet;
import net.sourceforge.openforecast.Observation;
import net.sourceforge.openforecast.models.TripleExponentialSmoothingModel;


/**
 * Tests the implementation of the Triple Exponential Smoothing forecasting
 * model.
 * @author Steven R. Gould
 * @since 0.4
 */
public class TripleExponentialSmoothingTest extends OpenForecastTestCase
{
    /**
     * The amount of error in the forecast values where the forecast is
     * considered "correct" by the test.
     */
    private static double TOLERANCE = 0.0005;
    
    //    /**
    //     * The amount of error/tolerance in the Mean Squared Error where the
    //     * forecast is still considered "correct" by the test.
    //     */
    //    private static double MSE_TOLERANCE = 0.1;
    
    /**
     * Constructor required by the JUnit framework.
     */
    public TripleExponentialSmoothingTest( String name )
    {
        super(name);
    }
    
    /**
     * A simple test of triple exponential smoothing where the observed data is
     * constant. This should result in the same constant forecast for any
     * value of the smoothing constants.
     */
    public void testConstantTripleExponentialSmoothing()
    {
        final int NUMBER_OF_OBSERVATIONS = 20;
        
        // Set up some constant observed values
        DataSet observedData = new DataSet();
        DataPoint dp;
        
        for ( int t=0; t