Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14.2, Problem 14.22ACI
S&P 500 Stock Index. Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Stock Index (S&P 500) is a stock market index. Like the Dow Jones Industrial Average, it is an indicator of stock market activity. The data in the table are end-of-quarter values of the S&P 500 for the years 2008-2015.
a. Calculate and plot the exponentially smoothed series for the quarterly S&P 500 using a smoothing constant of w = .3.
b. Repeat part a but use w = .7.
c. Which exponentially smoothed series do you prefer for describing trends in the series? Explain.
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Chapter 14 Solutions
Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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