Time Series Patterns Multiple Choice Questions with Answers – PDF Download

MCQ 1: The time series increases in:

1. Decreasing fashion
2. Linear fashion
3. Nonlinear fashion
4. Residual fashion

MCQ 2: A time series plot for a stationary time series will always exhibit a:

1. Vertical pattern
2. Seasonal pattern
3. Increasing pattern
4. Horizontal pattern

MCQ 3: The trending variation where the data fluctuates around its mean time is known to be as:

1. Mean-time trend
2. Vertical trend
3. Horizontal trend
4. Centrally allotted trend

MCQ 4: An alternative sequence of points below and above the trend line of the time series plot shows:

1. Trend pattern
2. Seasonal pattern
3. Cyclical pattern
4. Residual pattern

MCQ 5: The process of removing seasonality of data in forecasting of seasonal fluctuations is known to be:

1. Nonlinearization
2. By-seasonalization
3. De-seasonalization
4. Nonseasonalization