Refer to the quarterly housing start series, Exercise 14.8. Suppose you want to forecast the number of
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a. Calculate the exponentially smoothed values for 2013 and 2014 using w = .6.
b. Plot the housing starts series and the exponentially smoothed series on the same graph.
c. Use the exponentially smoothed data from 2013-2014 to forecast the quarterly number of housing starts in 2015.
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