Essentials Of Business Analytics
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ISBN: 9781285187273
Author: Camm, Jeff.
Publisher: Cengage Learning,
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Chapter 5, Problem 13P
The values of Alabama building contracts (in millions of dollars) for a 12-month period are as follows:
- a. Construct a time series plot. What type of pattern exists in the data?
- b. Compare a three-month moving average forecast with an exponential smoothing forecast. Use α = 0.2. Which provides the better forecasts based on MSE?
- c. What is the forecast for the next month using exponential smoothing with α = 0.2?
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Chapter 5 Solutions
Essentials Of Business Analytics
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