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3. Let's practice time-series forecasting of new home sales. Click here (https://www.census.gov/constructionrs/historical_data/index.html) to see the newest data in the first table: Houses Sold - Seasonal

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3. Let's practice time-series forecasting of new home sales. Click here (https://www.census.gov/constructionrs/historical_data/index.html) to see the newest data in the first table: Houses Sold - Seasonal Factors, Total (Excel file is sold_cust.xls). Look at the monthly data on the "Reg Sold" tab. If you have trouble with the link, I have recreated the data in moodle in the Excel file "A3Q3 Census Housing Data." Only keep the dates beginning in January 2009, so delete the earlier observations, and use the data through April 2019. Keep only the US data, both the seasonally unadjusted monthly (column B) and the seasonally adjusted annual (column G). Make a new column of seasonally adjusted monthly by dividing the annual data by 12. Make a column called "t" where t will go from 1 (Jan. 2009) to

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