Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 14

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-megafaunal extinction

• A)An economic system based on herding flocks of goats, sheep, cattle, or other animals.
• B)Group of Homo erectus with brains as large as those of modern humans that lived in Europe and western Asia between 200,000 and 30,000 years ago.
• C)Differentiation of tasks by gender, age, training, status, or other social distinction.
• D)Idea that people, animals, plants, natural occurrences, and other parts of the physical world have spirits.
• E)Divisions between rich and poor, elites and common people, that have been a central feature of human society since the Neolithic era.
• F)Social system in which men have more power and access to resources than women and some men are dominant over other men.
• G)Period during which humans used tools of stone, bone, and wood and obtained food by gathering and hunting. Roughly 250,000-9000 B.C.E.
• H)Dramatic transformation in human history resulting from the change from foraging to raising crops and animals.
• I)A style of life in which people gain food by gathering plant products, trapping or catching small animals and birds, and hunting larger prey.
• J)Spiritually adept men and women who communicated with the unseen world.
• K)Period beginning in 9000 B.C.E. during which humans obtained food by raising crops and animals and continued to use tools primarily of stone, bone, and wood.
• L)Members of the family Hominidae that contains humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
• M)Crop raising done with hand tools and human power.
• N)Die-off of large animals in many parts of the world about 45,000-10,000 B.C.E., caused by climate change and most likely human hunting.
• O)Plants and animals modified by selective breeding so as to serve human needs; these animals will behave in specific ways and breed in captivity.
• P)The practice of marrying within a certain ethnic or social group.

Apply appropriate methods for analyzing time series, including moving averages and exponential smoothing.

Determine the impact of selecting different values of the smoothing constant on the outcome of exponential smoothing.

Compute and interpret the seasonal indices and their relevance in time series analysis.

Recognize the specific applications of time series analysis in various contexts, such as stock market performance.

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