SCENARIO 13-7
the Department Head of the Accounting Department Wanted

question 187

Short Answer

SCENARIO 13-7
The department head of the accounting department wanted to see if she could predict the GPA of students using the number of course units and total SAT scores of each.She takes a sample of 6 students and generates the following Microsoft Excel output: SUMMARY OUTPUT
Regression Statistics
$\begin{array} { l l } \text { Multiple R } & 0.916 \\ \text { R Square } & 0.839 \\ \text { Adjusted R Square } & 0.732 \\ \text { Standard Error } & 0.24685 \\ \text { Observations } & 6 \end{array}$

ANOVA
$\begin{array} { l r c c r c } & d f & \text { SS } & \text { MS } & F & \text { Signif } F \\ \text { Regression } & 2 & 0.95219 & 0.47610 & 7.813 & 0.0646 \\ \text { Residual } & 3 & 0.18281 & 0.06094 & & \\ \text { Total } & 5 & 1.13500 & & & \end{array}$

$\begin{array} { l c r c c } & \text { Coeff } & \text { StdError } & t \text { Stat } & P \text {-value } \\ \text { Intercept } & 4.593897 & 1.13374542 & 4.052 & 0.0271 \\ \text { Units } & - 0.247270 & 0.06268485 & - 3.945 & 0.0290 \\ \text { Total SAT } & 0.001443 & 0.00101241 & 1.425 & 0.2494 \end{array}$
-Referring to SCENARIO 13-7, the department head decided to construct a 95% confidence interval for $\beta$ 1 .The confidence interval is from to .

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