SCENARIO 13-5 The Managing Partner of an Advertising Agency Believes That His

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SCENARIO 13-5
The managing partner of an advertising agency believes that his company's sales are related to the industry sales.He uses Microsoft Excel to analyze the last 4 years of quarterly data with the following results:

-Referring to Scenario 13-5,the partner wants to test for autocorrelation using the Durbin-Watson statistic.Using a level of significance of 0.05,the decision he should make is:

• A)there is evidence of autocorrelation.
• B)the test is unable to make a definite conclusion.
• C)there is no evidence of autocorrelation.
• D)there is not enough information to perform the test.

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