TABLE 14-6 One of the Most Common Questions of Prospective House Buyers

question 63

True/False

TABLE 14-6
One of the most common questions of prospective house buyers pertains to the cost of heating in dollars (Y).To provide its customers with information on that matter,a large real estate firm used the following 2 variables to predict heating costs: the daily minimum outside temperature in degrees of Fahrenheit (X₁)and the amount of insulation in inches (X₂).Given below is EXCEL output of the regression model. Also SSR (X₁ ∣ X₂)= 8343.3572 and SSR (X₂ ∣ X₁)= 4199.2672
-True or False: The coefficient of multiple determination measures the proportion of variation in Y that is explained by X₁ and X₂.

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