Suppose You Are Interested in Modeling the Amount of Money

question 103

Multiple Choice

Suppose you are interested in modeling the amount of money a firm spends on marketing their product.In order to have your results be of interest to a wide audience,you collect data from a variety of firms ranging from those who spend quite little on advertising to those that spend quite a bit.If you model advertising expenditures as a function of gross sales,your results might be subject to:

• A)autocorrelation.
• B)heteroscedasticity.
• C)multicollinearity.
• D)specification bias.

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