SCENARIO 16-5 the Number of Passengers Arriving at San Francisco on the on the Amtrak

question 44

Short Answer

SCENARIO 16-5
The number of passengers arriving at San Francisco on the Amtrak cross-country express on 6 successive Mondays were: 60,72,96,84,36,and 48.
-Referring to Scenario 16-5,the number of arrivals will be smoothed with a 3-term moving average.The first smoothed value will be .

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Random Assignment

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Confounding Variable

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