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Com Degree Examination- University Questions

Chapter 5 -Time series

1. What do you mean by time series ? Explain chief components of time
series • (U. Q 2006 , 2007, 2010 )
2. Give the meaning of the term "seasonal variation ". (U. Q 2005,2010)
3. What is meant by secular trend ? (U. Q 2004)
4. What is Moving average? (U.Q 2003)
5 Following are the figures of sales for the past six years .Determine the trend time
by
the free-hand curve method. (U.Q 2009)
Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Sales in lakh units : 80 115 105 135 125 150

6. Following are the figures of profits for the past seven years. Determine the trend
Line by free hand curve method. (u.Q 2008)
Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Profit 1000 1180 1140 1240 1190 1170 1200
(Rs. In lakhs)
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7 Calculate 3 years moving averages of the production figures given below and
Draw the trend (U.Q 2007)
Year: 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
Production: 15 21 30 36 42 45 48
(in metric tons)
Year: 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Production: 54 57 63 72 78 90
(in metric tons)

8 Using three yearly moving averages determine the trend and plot the original and
trend values on a graph (U. Q 2006)

Year 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982

Production
(in 000 tons) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

9 Compute the trend by finding three yearly moving averages for the following time
series (U. Q 2005)

Year 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986

Production 412 438 446 454 470·· 483 490
(in millions)
10 Fit a straight line trend to the data given by method of least square (u.Q 2003)
Year 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
Output 672 824 968 1205 1464 1758 2058