Regression Analysis

question 30

Essay

Regression analysis. A local grocery store wants to predict its daily sales in dollars.The manager believes that the amount of newspaper advertising significantly affects sales.He randomly selects 7 days of data consisting of daily grocery store sales (in thousands of dollars)and advertising expenditures (in thousands of dollars).The Excel/MegaStat output given above summarizes the results of the regression model.What are the limits of the 99 percent prediction interval of the daily sales in dollars of an individual grocery store that has spent $3,000 on advertising expenditures? The distance value for this particular prediction is reported as .164.

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