Ms. Patricia Waldo, city manager of Big Cat, Texas, believes that she has discovered an effective strategy

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Ms. Patricia Waldo, city manager of Big Cat, Texas, believes that she has discovered an effective strategy to combat the problem of loitering. Ms. Waldo believes that loitering will decrease dramatically when classical music is piped through the city’s outdoor speaker system, which has been installed on a few main streets downtown. The program is phased in gradually. Music is played on the system on some days but is purposely not played on other days. This procedure enables the manager to compare differences in the number of individuals cited for loitering on music days and non music days. Ms. Waldo runs a regression in which the number of individuals receiving either warnings or citations for loitering (LOIT) is the dependent variable. The independent variable is a dummy variable coded 1 for days when classical music is played on the outdoor speaker system, and 0 for days when music is not played (MUSIC). What can Ms. Waldo conclude about the effectiveness of this program from the regression results?

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Applied Statistics For Public And Nonprofit Administration

ISBN: 9781111342807

8th Edition

Authors: Kenneth J. Meier, Jeffrey L. Brudney, John Bohte

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