The president of a small manufacturing firm is concerned about the continual increase in manufacturing costs over
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a. Construct a time series plot. What type of pattern exists in the data?
b. Use simple linear regression analysis to find the parameters for the line that minimizes MSE for this time series.
c. What is the average cost increase that the firm has been realizing per year?
d. Compute an estimate of the cost/unit for next year.
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Modern Business Statistics With Microsoft Excel
ISBN: 9781337115186
6th Edition
Authors: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran
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