The Statistic Used to Test Whether the Independent Variables Taken

question 4

Multiple Choice

The statistic used to test whether the independent variables taken as a group explain a statistically significant portion of the variation in the dependent variable is the:

• A) R-squared statistic.
• B) t-statistic.
• C) Durbin-Watson statistic.
• D) F-test statistic.
• E) standard error of the estimate.

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