Test the Hypotheses $H _ { 0 } :$ There Is No First-Order Autocorrelation

question 23

Essay

Test the hypotheses: $H _ { 0 } :$ There is no first-order autocorrelation $H _ { 1 } :$ There is positive first-order autocorrelation,
given that: the Durbin-Watson statistic d = 0.686, n = 16, k = 1 and $\alpha =$ 0.05.

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