A tourism specialist uses decomposition analysis to examine hotel occupancy rates for Bar Harbor, Maine. She collects
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A tourism specialist uses decomposition analysis to examine hotel occupancy rates for Bar Harbor, Maine. She collects quarterly data for the past five years (n = 20)
and finds that the linear trend model best captures the trend of the seasonally adjusted series: In addition, she calculates quarterly indices as
Ŝ = 0.53, Ŝ2 = 0.90, Ŝ 3 = 1.40, and Ŝ 4 = 1.17.
a. Interpret the first and third quarterly indices.
b. Forecast next year’s occupancy rates.
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Business Statistics Communicating With Numbers
ISBN: 9780071317610
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Authors: Kelly Jaggia
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