Statistics for Business and Economics, Student Value Edition (13th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134456997
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14, Problem 14.59ACB
Insured Social Security workers (cont’d). Refer to Exercise 14.58.
a. Compute the exponentially smoothed series for the annual number of workers who are fully and permanently insured for Social Security. Use the smoothing constant w = .5.
b. Plot the number of workers and the exponentially smoothed values on the same graph.
c. Use exponential smoothing to forecast the number of fully and permanently insured workers in 2016 and 2017. What is the drawback to these forecasts?
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