TABLE 16-8 The President of a Chain of Department Stores Believes That

question 55

Short Answer

TABLE 16-8
The president of a chain of department stores believes that her stores' total sales have been showing a linear trend since 1990. She uses Microsoft Excel to obtain the partial output below. The dependent variable is sales (in millions of dollars), while the independent variable is coded years, where 1990 is coded as 0, 1991 is coded as 1, etc.
SUMMARY OUTPUT
Regression Statistics

-Referring to Table 16-8, the fitted trend value (in millions of dollars) for 1990 is ________.

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