Exam 17: Time-Series Analysis and Forecasting

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A time series for the years 1990-1995 is shown below. Year 2010 125 2011 115 2012 120 2013 126 2014 140 2015 122 a. Develop forecasts for the years 2016-2018, with the following smoothing constant values: w = 0.2, w = 0.5 and w = 0.6. b. Compare each of the three sets of forecasts above with the actual values for 2016-2018 given in the following table, and compute the MAD for each model. Which model is best? Year 2016 130 2017 125 2018 135

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Which of the following is not true in regard to the weights used in exponential smoothing?

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Weekly toy sales (in $1000s) in a department store for the past three months are shown below. Month Week Sales 1 1 14 2 22 3 20 4 16 2 1 18 2 20 3 24 4 20 3 1 22 2 26 3 24 4 18 Compute the four-week centred moving averages.

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The quarterly sales ($millions) of a department store chain were recorded for the years 2013-2016. Year Quarter Sales 2013 1 21 2 36 3 28 4 44 2014 1 25 2 23 3 39 4 36 2015 1 30 2 41 3 47 4 55 2016 1 34 2 29 3 32 4 48 a. Calculate the four-quarter centred moving averages. b. Graph time series and moving averages. State your conclusions about time-series smoothing?

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Of the four different components of a time series, the trend component is the one most likely to exhibit the relatively steady growth of the population of the Australian from about 10 million in 1960 to about 20 million in 2000.

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Which of the following components of a time-series reflects the overall general movement of the data?

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We calculate the five-period moving average for a time series for all time periods except the:

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Which of the following is true?

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The easiest way of measuring the long-term trend is through regression analysis, where time is the dependent variable.

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Which of the following will not be present in a deseasonalised time series?

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The cyclical variation component of a time series is a wave like movement, showing peaks and troughs.

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The linear model for long-term trend is y=β0+β1t+εy = \beta _ { 0 } + \beta _ { 1 } t + \varepsilon , where t is the time period. The trend is indicated by:

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A company selling swimming goggles wants to analyze the company's Australian sales figures. Time series forecasting with regression was used to generate Excel output to estimate trend of the time series of Swimming goggle sales (in thousands of dollars) where the origin is the March Quarter 2000. SUMMARY OUTPUT Regression Statistics Muttiple R 0.37281 R Square 0.13899 Adjusted R Square 0.12243 Standard Error 10.3925 Observations 54  ANOYA \text { ANOYA } df SS MS F Significance F Regression 906.5867925 906.59 8.39406 0.005497292 Residual 52 5616.172467 108 Total 53 6522.759259 Coefficients StandardError tStat P-value Lover 95\% Upper 35\% Intercept 12.237 2.789633876 4.3866 5.6-05 6.639227133 17.8348469 0.26289 0.090738795 2.8973 0.0055 0.080812368 0.4449738 (a) Forecast goggles sales for each quarter of 2016. (b) Are these good predictions? Explain.

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The agricultural exports (in millions of dollars) from a Latin American country for 10 years are shown below. Year t Exports 2006 1 96 2007 2 110 2008 3 125 2009 4 141 2010 5 132 2011 6 126 2012 7 118 2013 8 125 2014 9 133 2015 10 148 a. Use the regression technique to calculate the linear trend line. b. Calculate the percentage of trend. c. Plot the percentage of trend. d. Describe the cyclical effect (if there is one).

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Suppose that we calculate the four-period moving average of the following time series: t 1 2 3 4 5 6 18 28 23 17 26 14 The centred moving average for period 4 is:

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If we wanted to measure the seasonal variations on stock market performance by quarter, we would need:

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The equation Ft+1 = wyt + (1w)St-1 (for t 2) refers to a time series forecast prepared by exponential smoothing.

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To measure the seasonal variation, we compute seasonal indexes, which gauge the degree to which the seasons differ from one another.

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A local newspaper that appears six days per week wanted to forecast two-day revenues from its business services classified ads section. The revenues (in $1000s) were recorded for the past 52 weeks. From these data, the following regression equation was computed: ŷt = 2000 + 0.6t - 150D1 - 40D2 , t = 1, 2, 3,…156, where: D1 = 1, if Monday or Tuesday = 0, otherwise. D2 = 1, if Wednesday or Thursday = 0, otherwise. Forecast the two-day revenues for the next week.

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Which method would you recommend in selecting the appropriate forecasting model if avoiding large errors is extremely important?

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