A Firm Has Modeled Its Experience with Industrial Accidents and Found

question 22

Essay

A firm has modeled its experience with industrial accidents and found that the number of accidents per year (y-hat) is related to the number of employees (x) by the regression equation: y-hat = 3.3 + 0.049x. The r-squared value is 0.68. The regression is based on 20 annual observations. The firm intends to employ 480 workers next year. How many accidents do you project? How much confidence do you have in that forecast?

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