Question: a ) Develop a 5 - week moving average to forecast air travel passengers from week 6 to week 1 9 . ( 1 pts

a) Develop a 5-week moving average to forecast air travel passengers from week 6 to week 19.(1 pts)
b) Estimate demand again for week 6 to week 19 within a 5-week weighted moving average in which passengers for air travel in the most recent week are given a weight of 5,3,2 and passengers in the other 2 weeks are each given a weight of 1.(2 pts)
c) Compute the forecasts for each week using exponential smoothing, with an initial forecast for week 6 of 425 passengers. Use =0.25.(2 pts)
d) Using MAD, which of the three forecasting methods is best? (1 pts)
e) Using MSE, which of the three forecasting methods is best? (1 pts) f) Using MAPE, which of the three forecasting methods is best? (1 pts)

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