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Important: The function FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY is not available in Excel for the Web,
iOS, or Android.

Returns the length of the repetitive pattern Excel detects for the specified time series.
FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY can be used following FORECAST.ETS to identify which
automatic seasonality was detected and used in FORECAST.ETS. While it can also be used
independently of FORECAST.ETS, the functions are tied since the seasonality detected in
this function is identical to the one used by FORECAST.ETS, considering the same input
parameters that affect data completion.

Syntax
FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY(values, timeline, [data_completion], [aggregation])

The FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY function syntax has the following arguments:

Values Required. Values are the historical values, for which you want to forecast the
next points.

Timeline Required. The independent array or range of numeric data. The dates in the
timeline must have a consistent step between them and can’t be zero. The timeline isn't
required to be sorted, as FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY will sort it implicitly for
calculations. If a constant step can't be identified in the provided timeline,
FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY will return the #NUM! error. If timeline contains duplicate
values, FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY will return the #VALUE! error. If the ranges of the
timeline and values aren't of same size, FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY will return the
#N/A error.
Data completion Optional. Although the timeline requires a constant step between
data points, FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY supports up to 30% missing data, and will
automatically adjust for it. 0 will indicate the algorithm to account for missing points as
zeros. The default value of 1 will account for missing points by completing them to be
the average of the neighboring points.

Aggregation Optional. Although the timeline requires a constant step between data
points, FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY will aggregate multiple points which have the
same time stamp. The aggregation parameter is a numeric value indicating which
method will be used to aggregate several values with the same time stamp. The default
value of 0 will use AVERAGE, while other options are SUM, COUNT, COUNTA, MIN, MAX,
MEDIAN.

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Forecasting functions (reference)

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