Polly Prognosticator Was the Greatest Quantitative Forecaster in Recorded History

question 46

Multiple Choice

Polly Prognosticator was the greatest quantitative forecaster in recorded history. A skillful user of all techniques in your chapter on forecasting, she knew better than to try and develop a forecast for data that exhibited a:

• A) random pattern.
• B) horizontal pattern.
• C) seasonal pattern.
• D) cyclical pattern.

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Definitions:

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