TABLE 13-12 The Manager of the Purchasing Department of a Large Saving

question 139

Multiple Choice

TABLE 13-12
The manager of the purchasing department of a large saving and loan organization would like to develop a model to predict the amount of time (measured in hours) it takes to record a loan application. Data are collected from a sample of 30 days, and the number of applications recorded and completion time in hours is recorded. Below is the regression output:

Note: 4.3946E-15 is 4.3946 ×



-Referring to Table 13-12, the error sum of squares (SSE) of the above regression is

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