Please Define the Following Key Terms

question 12

Essay

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Council of Trent

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Definitions:

Trend Variation

The component of a time series that shows the underlying direction or path that data points are moving over time, disregarding random variations.

Smoothing Constant

A parameter used in exponential smoothing models to weight recent observations more heavily than older ones for forecasting purposes.

Exponential Smoothing

Exponential smoothing is a time series forecasting method for smoothing data values, giving more weight to recent observations while factoring in older data.

Moving Average

A statistical technique used to analyze time series data by creating a series of averages of different subsets of the full data set.