The Superintendent of a School District Wanted to Predict the Percentage

question 113

Multiple Choice

The superintendent of a school district wanted to predict the percentage of students passing a
Sixth-grade proficiency test.She obtained the data on percentage of students passing the
Proficiency test (% Passing) , daily mean of the percentage of students attending class (%
Attendance) , mean teacher salary in dollars (Salaries) , and instructional spending per pupil in
Dollars (Spending) of 47 schools in the state.She believed that holding everything else constant,
Instructional spending per pupil had a positive but decreasing impact on percentage.Which of
The following would be the most appropriate analysis to perform?

• A) Autoregressive modeling.
• B) Exponential smoothing.
• C) Least-squares forecasting with monthly or quarterly data.
• D) Linear regression with log transformation.

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