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This website incorporates forecasting skills from BUA 345 - Business Analytics into a dashboard presentation format.

Last Update:

Monday, April 20, 2026

Opening Value:

84.62

Highest Value:

84.75

Lowest Value:

83.02

Adj. Closing Value:

83.53

  • The forecast plot shows the forecasted Crude Oil stock prices for the next 12 months.

  • The plot also shows the 80% prediction interval in dark purple and the 95% prediction interval in light purple.

  • The numeric values for these forecasted values and prediction intervals are shown in the next tab.

The table below shows the forecast values and 80% and 95% prediction intervals for the 12 requested forecasts for the Crude Oil stock.

Point Forecast Lo 80 Hi 80 Lo 95 Hi 95
May 2026 84.11470 80.27087 87.95854 78.23606 89.99334
Jun 2026 86.66631 81.34591 91.98671 78.52946 94.80316
Jul 2026 86.96486 81.07777 92.85195 77.96133 95.96839
Aug 2026 87.26341 80.85958 93.66724 77.46960 97.05722
Sep 2026 87.56196 80.68009 94.44383 77.03704 98.08687
Oct 2026 87.86051 80.53171 95.18931 76.65207 99.06894
Nov 2026 88.15906 80.40906 95.90905 76.30645 100.01166
Dec 2026 88.45760 80.30815 96.60706 75.99408 100.92112
Jan 2027 88.75615 80.22592 97.28638 75.71029 101.80201
Feb 2027 89.05470 80.15999 97.94942 75.45141 102.65800
Mar 2027 89.35325 80.10841 98.59809 75.21448 103.49202
Apr 2027 89.65180 80.06961 99.23399 74.99711 104.30649
  • In March of 2027, the Crude Oil stock price is forecasted to be 89 dollars.

  • The width of the 80% prediction interval for this forecast in March of 2027 is 18 dollars.
  • These three residual plots allow the analyst to examine the distribution of the residuals of the modeled time series.

  • Despite increasing volatility, our stock price model is estimated to be 96.5% accurate.

  • This doesn’t guarantee that forecasts will be 96.5% accurate but it does improve our chances of accurate forecasting.


This dashboard was created using Quarto in RStudio, and the R Language and Environment.

The dataset used to create this dashboard was downloaded from Yahoo Finance.

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