You work for a company in the marketing department. manager nas with forecasting sales by month for the next year. You notice that over the past 12 months sales have consistently gone up in a linear fashion,'so you decide to run a regression the company's sales history. If 10 months are sampled and the regression output is given below, what can we conclude about the slope of time? Predictor Coef Stdev t-ratio Constant 485.023 34.5274 14.05 <0.0001 20.765 7.5455 2.75 0.025 time S - 56.651 R-sq = 48.63% R-sq (adj) = 42.21% Analysis of Variance SOURCE DF SS MS F. Regression 24306.4 24306.4 7.57 0.025 Error 25674.9 3209.4 Total 49981.4

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You work for a company in the marketing department. Your manager has tasked you
with forecasting sales by month for the next year. You notice that over the past 12
months sales have consistently gone up in a linear fashion,'so you decide to run a
regression the company's sales history. If 10 months are sampled and the regression
output is given below, what can we conclude about the slope of time?
Predictor
Coef
Stdev
t-ratio
Constant
485.023
34.5274
14.05
<0.0001
time
20.765
7.5455
2.75
0.025
S - 56.651
R-sq = 48.63%
R-sq (adj) = 42.21%
Analysis of Variance
SOURCE
DF
SS
MS
Regression
1
24306.4
24306.4
7.57
0.025
Error
25674.9
3209.4
Total
49981.4
Transcribed Image Text:You work for a company in the marketing department. Your manager has tasked you with forecasting sales by month for the next year. You notice that over the past 12 months sales have consistently gone up in a linear fashion,'so you decide to run a regression the company's sales history. If 10 months are sampled and the regression output is given below, what can we conclude about the slope of time? Predictor Coef Stdev t-ratio Constant 485.023 34.5274 14.05 <0.0001 time 20.765 7.5455 2.75 0.025 S - 56.651 R-sq = 48.63% R-sq (adj) = 42.21% Analysis of Variance SOURCE DF SS MS Regression 1 24306.4 24306.4 7.57 0.025 Error 25674.9 3209.4 Total 49981.4
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