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The data file Hourly Earnings shows manufacturing hourly earnings in the United States over 24 months. Use the Holt-Winters procedure with smoothing constants $\alpha=0.7$ and $\beta=0.6$ to obtain forecasts for the next 3 months.
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The Holt-Winters method is an exponential smoothing technique used for forecasting time series data that exhibits both trend and seasonality. Since the problem does not mention seasonality, we will use the Holt's linear trend model, which involves two smoothing Show more…
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