Causal Forecasting

question 31

Multiple Choice

Causal forecasting:

• A) does not depend upon historical values of a variable.
• B) assumes that the variable being forecast has a cause-effect relationship with one or more other variables.
• C) uses present variable values to study what should have been the ideal past values.
• D) uses time series plots to study if the variable values are centered around the mean.

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Definitions:

Hypotheses

Assumptions or propositions that are tested for statistical significance through experiments or observations.

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Rejection Region

The range of values in hypothesis testing that if the test statistic falls into, leads to the rejection of the null hypothesis.

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