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Chapter 2 Demonstration of HP RXForecast This chapter steps through the different features of HP RXForecast that are used to produce a forecast. You will become familiar with how the product integrates with HP LaserRX/MPE and the different options that are available for producing a forecast. The purpose of this chapter is to give you a quick overview of HP RXForecast. Thus, techniques, concepts, and features are explained only briefly. More thorough explanations are given in subsequent chapters, to which you are referred. You will make forecasts in this section, but no analysis will be done. You will analyze data in the case studies in Chapter 5 . The graphs drawn in this chapter use the TRAPPER.PRF file provided on the HP LaserRX/MPE CD. Since HP RXForecast will access data much faster from your PC hard disk than it will from the CD, you should copy TRAPPER.PRF from the CD to the LASERRX directory on your hard disk if you have approximately 3.5 megabytes available. This will make the product perform as it would with your own data. Use TRAPPER.PRF from the CD if you are unable to copy it to your hard disk. See "Setting Performance Expectations" for a discussion of performance times.
Tip Go through this chapter using the TRAPPER.PRF logfile before you look at your own data.
You should be familiar with HP LaserRX/MPE features before beginning this section. The HP LaserRX/MPE User's Manual: Analysis Software explains many options that are also used by HP RXForecast, such as opening a file, making a data communications connection, or exporting data to a worksheet. These HP LaserRX/MPE functions operate the same way in HP RXForecast.