Forecasting

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Message posted by Kat (via 209.179.134.163) on June 27, 2001 at 4:46 PM (ET)

How would you calculate the following population growth:

1996 23000
1997 23526
1998 24821
1999 24647
2000 25998

Rounded to the neareast whole number, what is the predicted population for 2001? Within one standard error of estimate, the population range for 2001 will be between ___ and ___ people.

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Re: Forecasting
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.24.198) on June 27, 2001 at 8:57 PM (ET)

Do these numbers represent population or population change ? In any case, you can do regression, exponential smoothing, etc. There are many websites that will do the computations for you.

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