Smoothing Time Series Data by the Moving Average Method or Exponential

question 212

Multiple Choice

Smoothing time series data by the moving average method or exponential smoothing method is an attempt to remove the effect of the:

• A)trend component
• B)cyclical component
• C)seasonal component
• D)random variation component

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