Loose-leaf For Applied Statistics In Business And Economics
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Author: David Doane, Lori Seward Senior Instructor of Operations Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 14, Problem 12CR
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Explain two ways to initialize the forecasts in an exponential smoothing process.
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To determine
Write an advantage and disadvantage of each method.
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industrial production (IP), consumer prices (CP), and producer prices (PP) from Fall 2000
to Fall 2001, and the unemployment rate in Fall 2001 (UNEMP). An economist wants to
construct a model to predict GDP from the other variables. A fit of the model
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yields the following output:
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GDP = 1.19 + 0.17 IP + 0.18 UNEMP + 0.18 CP – 0.18 PP
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Constant
1.18957 0.42180 2.82 0.018
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0.17326 0.041962 4.13 0.002
UNEMP
0.17918 0.045895 3.90 0.003
CP
0.17591 0.11365 1.55 0.153
PP
-0.18393 0.068808 -2.67 0.023
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Chapter 14 Solutions
Loose-leaf For Applied Statistics In Business And Economics
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