What Is a Tracking Signal Used For

question 34

Multiple Choice

What is a tracking signal used for?

• A) To identify trends in actual data
• B) To identify seasonality in actual data
• C) To identify the effect of business cycles on actual data
• D) To compute the value of the smoothing constant,  , for exponential smoothing
• E) To identify forecast bias

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