Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14.8, Problem 14.38LM
The annual price of a finished product (in cents per pound) from 2000 to 2015 is given in the table below. The time variable t begins with t = 1 in 2000 and is incremented by 1 for each additional year
a. Fit the straight-line model, E(Yt) = β0. + β1t, to the data.
b. Give the least squares estimates of the β′s.
c. Use the least squares prediction equation to obtain the forecasts for 2016 and 2017.
d. Find 95% forecast intervals for 2016 and 2017.
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Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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