Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14.2, Problem 14.19ACI
Yearly price of gold. The price of gold is used by some financial analysts as a barometer of investors’ expectations of inflation, with the price of gold tending to increase as concerns about inflation increase. The table below shows the average annual price of gold (in dollars per ounce) from 1990 through 2015.
a. Compute an exponentially smoothed series for the gold price time series for the period from 1990 to 2015, using a smoothing coefficient of w = .8.
b. Plot the original series and the exponentially smoothed series on the same graph. Comment on the trend observed.
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