TABLE 13-4 The Managers of a Brokerage Firm Are Interested in Finding

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TABLE 13-4
The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new clients a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new clients they have enrolled in the last year and their sales amounts in thousands of dollars. These data are presented in the table that follows.
-Referring to Table 13-4, the total sum of squares (SST) is ________.

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Definitions:

Index Model

A financial model that describes the market or a segment of the market, typically used to predict the return or price of assets in comparison to the market as a whole.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of values, used in finance to gauge the volatility of an investment.

Return

The gain or loss on an investment over a specified period, typically expressed as a percentage of the investment's initial cost.

Regression Analysis

A statistical method used to model and analyze the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables.