EBK MODERN BUSINESS STATISTICS WITH MIC
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Chapter 17, Problem 43SE
United Dairies, Inc., supplies milk to several independent grocers throughout Dade County, Florida. Managers at United Dairies want to develop a forecast of the number of half-gallons of milk sold per week. Sales data for the past 12 weeks follow.
- a. Construct a time series plot. What type of pattern exists in the data?
- b. Use exponential smoothing with α = .4 to develop a forecast of demand for week 13.
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EBK MODERN BUSINESS STATISTICS WITH MIC
Ch. 17.2 - 1. Consider the following time series...Ch. 17.2 - 2. Refer to the time series data in exercise 1....Ch. 17.2 - Prob. 3ECh. 17.2 - 4. Consider the following time series...Ch. 17.3 - Consider the following time series...Ch. 17.3 - Consider the following time series...Ch. 17.3 - Refer to the gasoline sales time series data in...Ch. 17.3 - Prob. 8ECh. 17.3 - 9. With the gasoline time series data from Table...Ch. 17.3 - 10. With a smoothing constant of α = .2, equation...
Ch. 17.3 - For the Hawkins Company, the monthly percentages...Ch. 17.3 - Corporate triple-A bond interest rates for 12...Ch. 17.3 - The values of Alabama building contracts (in $...Ch. 17.3 - The following time series shows the sales of a...Ch. 17.3 - Ten weeks of data on the Commodity Futures Index...Ch. 17.3 - Prob. 16ECh. 17.4 - Consider the following time series...Ch. 17.4 - Prob. 18ECh. 17.4 - Prob. 19ECh. 17.4 - Prob. 20ECh. 17.4 - Prob. 21ECh. 17.4 - Prob. 22ECh. 17.4 - The president of a small manufacturing firm is...Ch. 17.4 - FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), a database...Ch. 17.4 - Prob. 25ECh. 17.4 - Giovanni Food Products produces and sells frozen...Ch. 17.4 - The number of users of Facebook from 2004 through...Ch. 17.5 - Consider the following time series.
Construct a...Ch. 17.5 - Consider the following time series...Ch. 17.5 - The quarterly sales data (number of copies sold)...Ch. 17.5 - Air pollution control specialists in southern...Ch. 17.5 - South Shore Construction builds permanent docks...Ch. 17.5 - Prob. 33ECh. 17.5 - Prob. 34ECh. 17.6 - Consider the following time series...Ch. 17.6 - Refer to exercise 35.
Deseasonalize the time...Ch. 17.6 - The quarterly sales data (number of copies sold)...Ch. 17.6 - Three years of monthly lawn-maintenance expenses...Ch. 17.6 - Air pollution control specialists in southern...Ch. 17.6 - Electric power consumption is measured in...Ch. 17 - The weekly demand (in cases) for a particular...Ch. 17 - The following table reports the percentage of...Ch. 17 - United Dairies, Inc., supplies milk to several...Ch. 17 - Prob. 44SECh. 17 - The Garden Avenue Seven sells CDs of its musical...Ch. 17 - The Mayfair Department Store in Davenport, Iowa,...Ch. 17 - Prob. 47SECh. 17 - The Costello Music Company has been in business...Ch. 17 - Consider the Costello Music Company problem in...Ch. 17 - Prob. 50SECh. 17 - Refer to the Costello Music Company time series in...Ch. 17 - Prob. 52SECh. 17 - Refer to the Hudson Marine problem in exercise 52....Ch. 17 - Refer to the Hudson Marine problem in exercise...Ch. 17 - Refer to the Hudson Marine data in exercise...Ch. 17 - Forecasting Food and Beverage Sales
The Vintage...Ch. 17 - The Carlson Department Store suffered heavy damage...
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