TABLE 14-15 the Superintendent of a School District Wanted to Predict the Predict

question 5

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TABLE 14-15
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.
Following is the multiple regression output with Y = % Passing as the dependent variable, X₁ = % Attendance, X₂= Salaries and X₃= Spending:

-Referring to Table 14-15, you can conclude that mean teacher salary has no impact on the mean percentage of students passing the proficiency test at a 5% level of significance using the 95% confidence interval estimate for β₂.

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Solomon Asch Experiment

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