Motor Oil Sales

question 144

Essay

Motor Oil Sales
As part of an effort to forecast future sales,the monthly motor oil sales (in thousands of gallons)for the past 10 months are recorded.These data are shown below. ​ ​
-{Motor Oil Sales Narrative} Apply exponential smoothing with w = 0.1 and w = 0.8 to help detect the components of the time series.

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