A county has been battling COVID for the last few months. The accompanying data file includes the

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A county has been battling COVID for the last few months. The accompanying data file includes the daily number of new COVID cases in this county for six weeks. It is known that the number of COVID cases recorded over the weekend, which includes Saturday and Sunday, are lower than they are on weekdays. Estimate a linear trend model along with a weekend dummy variable and forecast the number of COVID cases for Monday and Saturday of week 7.

 

WeekDayCases
1Monday870
1Tuesday872
1Wednesday747
1Thursday682
1Friday709
1Saturday606
1Sunday520
2Monday690
2Tuesday754
2Wednesday707
2Thursday684
2Friday630
2Saturday419
2Sunday450
3Monday667
3Tuesday680
3Wednesday719
3Thursday674
3Friday442
3Saturday375
3Sunday386
4Monday629
4Tuesday616
4Wednesday620
4Thursday643
4Friday722
4Saturday427
4Sunday599
5Monday620
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