STATISTICS F/BUS.+ECON.-18WK. MYSTATLAB
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Chapter 14.5, Problem 14.29ACI
S&P 500 Stock Index. Refer to the quarterly Standard & Poor’s 500 stock market index, Exercise 14.22 (p. 14-16).
a. Use exponential smoothing with w = .7 to smooth the series from 2008 through 2014. Then forecast the quarterly values in 2015 using only the information through the fourth quarter of 2014.
b. Repeat part a using w = .3. 1,869.8
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