TABLE 16-9 Given Below Are Excel Outputs for Various Estimated Autoregressive Models

question 159

Multiple Choice

TABLE 16-9
Given below are Excel outputs for various estimated autoregressive models for a company's real operating revenues (in billions of dollars) from 1985 to 2008. From the data, you also know that the real operating revenues for 2006, 2007, and 2008 are 11.7909, 11.7757 and 11.5537, respectively.
First-Order Autoregressive Model:

Second-Order Autoregressive Model:

Third-Order Autoregressive Model:

-Referring to Table 16-9, if one decides to use the Third-Order Autoregressive model, what will the predicted real operating revenue for the company be in 2011?

• A) $11.59 billion
• B) $11.68 billion
• C) $11.84 billion
• D) $12.47 billion

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