In: Statistics and Probability
Suppose a company has the following sales for the last six months (January – June):
Month | Period | Sales |
January | 1 | 16 |
February | 2 | 25 |
March | 3 | 20 |
April | 4 | 20 |
May | 5 | 31 |
June | 6 | 35 |
July | 7 | 26 |
August | 8 | (a) |
Use exponential smoothing (a= 0.10) to forecast the sales for August (to 2 decimals). What is the value?
Compute the MSE for the exponential smoothing method from the above question (to 2 decimals).
Use a 2-period moving average to forecast the sales for August (to 2 decimals). (i.e.find (a) using a 2-period moving average)