Essentials of Business Analytics 1st Edition by Jeffrey Camm,James Cochran,Michael Fry,Jeffrey Ohlmann ,David Anderson

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Corporate triple A bond interest rates for 12 consecutive months follow.
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a. Construct a time series plot. What type of pattern exists in the data
b. Develop three-month and four-month moving averages for this time series. Does the three-month or the four-month moving average provide the better forecasts based on MSE Explain.
c. What is the moving average forecast for the next month