Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies and Tactics (MindTap Course List)
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Author: James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris
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Chapter 5, Problem 7E
The Questor Corporation has experienced the following sales pattern over a 10-year period:
- Compute the equation of a trend line (similar to Equation 5.4) for these sales data to
forecast sales for the next year. (Let - Use a first-order exponential smoothing model with a w of 0.9 to forecast sales for the year 2014.
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Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies and Tactics (MindTap Course List)
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