Exponential Smoothing program

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Ode Idoko via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
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> I am running a master degree programme and very new to programming including python. I have been given a project to write a python program on exponential smoothing of some selected stocks. The program should user the user to input alpha, display the graph of the original data and "smoothed data".
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> On the same python program, I am to develop a linear regression model to predict the next period, showing correlation coefficients to indicate the strength of the model.
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> I have been able to write a program which returns some values but no graph and also having difficulties with the linear regression.

SciPy (https://www.scipy.org/) will provide a linear regression for
you. In particular, see
https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.linregress.html

Matplotlib (https://matplotlib.org/) is a good tool for plotting graphs.

I suggest starting with those.