The oligopolydta attached give quarterly sales of the

Question

The "oligopoly.dta" attached give quarterly sales of the popular game Oligopoly at the J-Mart variety store.  Please use the multiplicative decomposition method to forecast Oligopoly sales for year 4.

a.      Compute appropriate 4-period moving averages for these data.

b.      Compute centered moving averages for these data.

c.      Calculate sn_t * ir_t  values for these data.

d.      Calculate estimates of the seasonal factors for quarterly Oligopoly sales.

e.      Compute the deseasonalized observations for these data.

f.       Plot the deaseasonalized observations versus time.  What kind of trend appears to exist?

g.      Assuming a linear trend

TR_t = B₀ + B₁t compute point estimates for B₀ and B₁.

h.      Compute  cl_t * ir_t values for the Oligopoly data.

i.       Compute estimates of the cyclical factors for the Oligopoly data.

j.       Compute forecasts of Oligopoly sales for the four quarters of year 4.

Note: Please use Stata for compute this results.