Consider the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

question 25

Multiple Choice

Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:
The average monthly residential mortgage lending rate in Canada is available monthly beginning in 1951. A scatterplot of the residuals against time for 747 months from January 1951 to March 2013 is shown below. The rate peaked in September of 1981 at 21.46%. The Durbin-Watson statistic has a value of 0.01.
-The critical values for the Durbin-Watson statistic for α = 0.05 and n = 750 are: dL= 1.87736 and dU = 1.88270. What does this tell us about the assumption of the independence of the errors?

• A) The assumption of independent errors is violated.
• B) The assumption of independent errors is not violated.
• C) The errors are not related to one another over time.
• D) This test is not valid for time series data.
• E) This evidence does not allow us to draw any conclusions in this regard.

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