TABLE 14-8 A Financial Analyst Wanted to Examine the Relationship Between Salary

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TABLE 14-8
A financial analyst wanted to examine the relationship between salary (in $1,000)and 2 variables: age
(X₁ = Age)and experience in the field (X₂ = Exper).He took a sample of 20 employees and obtained the following Microsoft Excel output: Also,the sum of squares due to the regression for the model that includes only Age is 5022.0654 while the sum of squares due to the regression for the model that includes only Exper is 125.9848.
-Referring to Table 14-8,the predicted salary (in $1,000)for a 35-year-old person with 10 years of experience is ________.

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Definitions:

Regression Models

Statistical models used to estimate the relationships among variables, often used to predict a dependent variable based on one or more independent variables.

Collinearity

A statistical phenomenon in which two or more predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated, potentially leading to unreliable estimates of the coefficients.

Intercorrelation

A statistical correlation between two or more variables or sets of data.

Simple Regression Analysis

Simple Regression Analysis is a statistical technique for estimating the relationship between a dependent variable and a single independent variable.