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Microsoft Excel 2016 Data Analysis and Business Modeling
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Microsoft Excel 2016 Data Analysis and Business Modeling

by Wayne L. Winston
December 2016
Beginner to intermediate
864 pages
24h 44m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 62. Using moving averages to understand time series

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Image I’m trying to analyze the upward trend in quarterly revenues of Amazon.com since 1996. Fourth quarter sales in the United States are usually larger (because of Christmas) than sales during the first quarter of the following year. This pattern obscures the upward trend in sales. Is there any way that I can graphically show the upward trend in revenues?

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Time-series data simply displays the same quantity measured at different points in time. For example, the data in the file Amazon.com.xlsx, a subset of which is shown ...

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