Given an Actual Demand of 100, a Previous Forecast Value

question 107

Multiple Choice

Given an actual demand of 100, a previous forecast value of 90, and an alpha of 0.2, the exponential smoothing forecast for the next period would be

• A) 92.6
• B) 92.0
• C) 118.0
• D) 98.0

Understand and apply the concept of degrees of freedom in statistical analysis.

Calculate and interpret chi-square (\(x ^ { 2 }\)) statistics for goodness-of-fit tests.

Use chi-square tests to evaluate hypotheses about the distribution of categorical data.

Distinguish between null and alternative hypotheses in various testing scenarios.

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