The Following Questions Are Based on the Problem Description, Regression

question 6

Multiple Choice

The following questions are based on the problem description, regression results, and the RiskSolver Platform (RSP) Discriminant Analysis report below.
A college admissions officer wants to evaluate graduate school applicants based on their GMAT scores, verbal and quantitative. Students are classified as either successful or not-successful in their graduate studies. The officer has data on 20 current students, ten of whom are doing very well (Group 1) and ten who are not (Group 2) .

-Refer to Exhibit 10.1. How would you compute the centroids for the two (2) groups?

• A)compute the average for cells C4:C13, C13:C23, D4:D13 and D13:D23
• B)perform regression on cells C4:C13, C13:C23, D4:D13 and D13:D23
• C)compute the average for cells C4:C23, D4:D23
• D)use regression with cells C4:C23, D4:D23 as the independent variables and B4:B23 as the dependent variable.

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