TABLE 16-10 The Manager of a Marketing Consulting Firm Has Been Examining

question 69

Short Answer

TABLE 16-10
The manager of a marketing consulting firm has been examining his company's yearly profits. He believes that these profits have been showing a quadratic trend since 1990. He uses Microsoft Excel to obtain the partial output below. The dependent variable is profit (in thousands of dollars), while the independent variables are coded years and squared of coded years, where 1990 is coded as 0, 1991 is coded as 1, etc.
SUMMARY OUTPUT
Regression Statistics

-Referring to Table 16-10, the fitted value for 1990 is ________.

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Definitions:

Financial Support

Assistance given in the form of money to help fund a particular project, activity, person, or organization.

Social Work Roles

Various functions and responsibilities undertaken by social workers, including advocacy, counseling, and community organization.

Advocate

A person who actively supports or argues for a cause or policy, often on behalf of another individual or group.

Organizer

An individual responsible for planning and arranging events, activities, or the structure of an organization or group.