Tuesday, 29 March 2016

statistic, operation management

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Sales of tennis rackets over the last five months at a local sports center are shown below


month sales

1 22

2 20

3 24

4 24

5 26



a) using a 3-period weighted moving average with weight 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3, prepare forecasts for months 4, 5 and 6 (i.e three forecasts).


b) using exponential smoothing with an alph of 0.5, prepare forecasts for months 4, 5 and 6, assuming the forecast for month 3 is 24


c) which method above yield a more accurate forecast ( use MAD and MSE ) why is it more accurate ?


d) fit a simple linear regression model to the sales data and use the regression line to prepare forecast for month 6

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