The Morgan Company Is Interested in Developing a Forecast for Next

question 38

True/False

The Morgan Company is interested in developing a forecast for next month's sales.It has collected sales data for the past 12 months. After analyzing these data,if the company wishes to use exponential smoothing with alpha = 0.20 and beta = 0.20,the starting values for the constant process and the trend process can be derived from a linear trend regression model by using the intercept and slope coefficient respectively.

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