In Measuring the Cyclical Effect of a Time Series, Cycles

question 36

Multiple Choice

In measuring the cyclical effect of a time series, cycles need to be isolated. The measure we use to identify cyclical variation is the:

• A)mean absolute deviation.
• B)trend value ŷ.
• C)percentage of trend.
• D)ratio of the time series divided by the moving average.

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