Which of the Following Is True of the Exponential Smoothing

question 43

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of the exponential smoothing method?

• A) It does not incorporate new observations into existing forecasts.
• B) It weighs all recent observations equally.
• C) It assigns weights that decrease exponentially as observations gets older.
• D) It does not use all available observations in making a forecast.

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