THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

question 167

Multiple Choice

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
A sales manager is interested in determining the relationship between the amount spent on advertising and total sales.The manager collects data for the past 24 months and runs a regression of sales on advertising expenditures.The results are presented below but,unfortunately,some values identified by asterisks are missing.
SUMMARY OUTPUT
-Correlation analysis is used to determine the:

• A)strength of the relationship between x and y.
• B)least squares estimates of the regression parameters.
• C)predicted value of y for a given value of x.
• D)forecast value of a particular dependent variable.

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