Compare two moving averages using MSE and compute Exponential smoothing.
The following data represents demand for company ABC's products for the last 10 months.
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Months
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Demand
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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450 463 520 500 510 516 534 525 530 534
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(a) Use the mean square error to compare between the three-month and the two-month moving averages.
(b) Use α= .2 to compute exponential smoothing values for the time series.