Refer to the quarterly housing start series, Exercise 14.8. Suppose you want to forecast the number of

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Refer to the quarterly housing start series, Exercise 14.8. Suppose you want to forecast the number of new housing starts in 2015 using data for 2013 and 2014.
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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Statistics For Business And Economics

ISBN: 9780134506593

13th Edition

Authors: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich

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