Question: Section 2: Model Building For the E-Commerce Retail Sales (Million$) data given in the table below, provide estimates from the 1st Quarter (Q1) of 2014
Section 2: Model Building
- For the E-Commerce Retail Sales (Million$) data given in the table below, provide estimates from the 1st Quarter (Q1) of 2014 to the 3rd Quarter (Q3) of 2015 by using two models:
1) Single Exponential Smoothing with =0.3
2) Trend Naive model.
| Quarter | Year | Actual |
| Q1 | 2014 | 66045 |
| Q2 | 2014 | 69594 |
| Q3 | 2014 | 71173 |
| Q4 | 2014 | 95673 |
| Q1 | 2015 | 75718 |
| Q2 | 2015 | 79695 |
| Q3 | 2015 | 81566 |
- Compare two models above (Single Exponential Smoothing and Trend Naive) based on their MAD values. Which forecasting method appears to be better? Using the model you choose, provide forecast for the 4th Quarter (Q4) of 2015.
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