The quarterly data presented here show the number of appliances (in thousands) returned to a particular manufacturer
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The quarterly data presented here show the number of appliances (in thousands) returned to a particular manufacturer for warranty service over the past five years.
a. Develop an exponential smoothing forecast model, with alpha = 0.6 for the data. Forecast returns for each quarter of the current year.
b. Develop a linear trend line forecast for each of the four quarters and forecast returns for each quarter of the current year.
Which of the two approaches appear to be most accurate?
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