A Quality Manager Is Developing a Regression Model to Predict

question 35

Multiple Choice

A quality manager is developing a regression model to predict the total number of defects as a function of the day of the week that the item is produced.Production runs are done 10 hours a day, 7 days a week.The explanatory variable is ______.

• A)day of week
• B)production run
• C)percentage of defects
• D)number of defects
• E)number of production runs

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