Exhibit 14-3 the Quarterly Numbers of Applications for Home Mortgage Loans at Loans

question 27

Essay

Exhibit 14-3
The quarterly numbers of applications for home mortgage loans at a branch office of a large bank are recorded in the table below.
-Refer to Exhibit 14-3. Obtain a simple exponential smoothing forecast again, this time optimizing the smoothing constant. Does it make much of an improvement?

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