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The following problems are from the above textbook Chapter 13  for this course as Discussion Questions assignment for week eight:  You can use any source.   

 

1.        13.1 Fitting a straight line to a set of data yiedls the following prediction line:   Y, = 2 + 5 Xi

a.  Interpret the meaning of the Y intercept, bo.

b.  Interpret the meaning of the slope, b1.

c.  Predict the value fo Y for X = 3.

 2.        Following data is amount of advertising an organization spent for sales.  The second column represents the resultant sales.  Use excel to ….

 a.       Obtain a Scatter plot of advertsing as the independent and sales as the dependent variable.

b.       Note the linear regression Model

c.       Predict the amount of sales for $2000 advertising commercial.

 

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 ($'000)

Sales ($'000)

1068

4489

1026

5611

767

3290

885

4113

1156

4883

1146

5425

892

4414

938

5506

769

3346

677

3673

1184

6542

1009

5088

 3.        Analysis of Variance

 Is there a statistical significance difference between the five supervisors?  How about the different shifts? (conduct an analysis of variance using excel to determine this problem. Make sure you conuct a full fledge eight step hypotheis test for both supervisors and shifts.)   

Day Shift

Evening Shift

Midnight shift

Joe

22

21

23

Bil

23

26

33

Robert

24

25

32

Sally

32

24

42

Zoe

35

29

39

 

For the supervisors:

 3a  What will be your Ho?

 3b  what is your Ha?

 3c  What is your level of significance?

 3d  What is your test statistics?

 3e  Why did you use the specific test statistics?

 3f  What is your decision rule?

 3g  Do your excel statistical print out

 3h  What is your decision?

 3i  What is your conclusion?

 3K  What is your recommendation?

 For the Shifts:

 3a  What will be your Ho?

3b  what is your Ha?

 3c  What is your level of significance?

 3d  What is your test statistics?

 3e  Why did you use the specific test statistics?

 3f  What is your decision rule?

 3g  Do your excel statistical print out

 3h  What is your decision?

 3i  What is your conclusion?

 3K  What is your recommendation?