I am new to forecasting.
I have weekly data.
I want to forecast using the Holt-Winters method.
Should I make training and test subsets of the data?
How important are the training and test data?
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Training and test sets are needed to measure a model's out of sample performance, which is essentially a simulation of how the model would have performed if you used it in the past.
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