Number of patients infected with Covid-19 virus newly admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in one hospital was 106 in January; 120 in February; 134 in March, and 142 in April, 2021.

Using Simple Exponential Soothing technique withw=0.6, what is your forecast forthe month of September, 2021?

For this data, compute Spearman Correlation for first order autocorrelation (lag 1)