Elliott Is the Vice-President of Marketing for NYP Corporation

question 25

Essay

Elliott is the vice-president of marketing for NYP Corporation. He has called upon you, a member of the accounting staff, to help him forecast future sales. A regression analysis, with sales as the dependent variable and number of credit clients as the independent variable, yielded the following results:
Variable Coefficient t-statistic p-value
Intercept 6911.45 3.45 0.01
Number of clients 1157.88 3.75 0.01
Adjusted R-square = 0.85
a)Write out the revenue function for this regression.
b)Identify two uncertainties associated with using the number of clients to predict sales.

Appreciate the ethical standards required in scientific writing and reporting.

Learn how to effectively present data in lab reports for diverse audiences.

Acknowledge the differences between writing lab reports for academic and professional audiences.

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