Month Year Sales Jan 2014 1489 Feb 2014 1292 Mar 2014 1351 Apr 2014 1263 May 2014 1205 Jun 2014 1093 Jul 2014 1255 Aug
Month | Year | Sales |
Jan | 2014 | 1489 |
Feb | 2014 | 1292 |
Mar | 2014 | 1351 |
Apr | 2014 | 1263 |
May | 2014 | 1205 |
Jun | 2014 | 1093 |
Jul | 2014 | 1255 |
Aug | 2014 | 1699 |
Sep | 2014 | 1392 |
Oct | 2014 | 1248 |
Nov | 2014 | 1163 |
Dec | 2014 | 1389 |
Jan | 2015 | 1432 |
Feb | 2015 | 1221 |
Mar | 2015 | 1194 |
Apr | 2015 | 1163 |
May | 2015 | 1103 |
Jun | 2015 | 1056 |
Jul | 2015 | 1160 |
Aug | 2015 | 1586 |
Sep | 2015 | 1314 |
Oct | 2015 | 1148 |
Nov | 2015 | 1073 |
Dec | 2015 | 1285 |
Jan | 2016 | 1247 |
Feb | 2016 | 1136 |
Mar | 2016 | 1171 |
Apr | 2016 | 1099 |
May | 2016 | 1060 |
Jun | 2016 | 982 |
Jul | 2016 | 1026 |
Aug | 2016 | 1544 |
Sep | 2016 | 1251 |
Oct | 2016 | 1032 |
Nov | 2016 | 1007 |
Dec | 2016 | 1169 |
Jan | 2017 | 1228 |
Feb | 2017 | 1004 |
Mar | 2017 | 1096 |
Apr | 2017 | 953 |
May | 2017 | 996 |
Jun | 2017 | 930 |
Jul | 2017 | 962 |
Aug | 2017 | 1446 |
Sep | 2017 | 1123 |
Oct | 2017 | 986 |
Nov | 2017 | 964 |
Dec | 2017 | 1069 |
Jan | 2018 | 1125 |
Feb | 2018 | 940 |
Mar | 2018 | 1008 |
Apr | 2018 | 916 |
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The Census Bureau tracks a variety of retail and service sales using the Monthly Retail Trade Survey. Consider the monthly sales (in millions of dollars) from January 2014 through April 2018 for office supply and stationery stores.
1. Test the significance of each indicator variable and report if there is any insignificant variable exists in the trend-and-season model.
2. Explain very briefly the reason why some coefficients of the indicator variables are negative from trend-and-season model.(2p.)
3. Report the indicator variable that shows the highest coefficient in the trend-and-season model and explain very briefly why one of the coefficients is quite high relative to other coefficients of indicator variables.
4. What are the predicted monthly sales for the month of August using the trend-and-season model? Explain the results very briefly.
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