Question: A supervisor suggests that the old computer program for estimating delivery times (used in problems 1-3) be abandoned. Instead, schedulers could use an alternative such
A supervisor suggests that the old computer program for estimating delivery times (used in
problems 1-3) be abandoned. Instead, schedulers could use an alternative such as MapQuest to
estimate driving times. As a pilot study, 500 recent deliveries were randomly selected. The Excel
file named SP20_Midterm_Data.xls contains the following variables:
Actual Times: actual time required to make delivery
Old Model Deviations: difference in actual delivery time and predicted delivery time
using old computer prediction model
MapQuest: predicted delivery times for the randomly selected routes using MapQuest
Use the data to calculate the deviations for the MapQuest estimates
(DMapQuest = actual delivery time - MapQuest predicted delivery time), then construct an
appropriate graph for comparing the deviations for the Old Computer model and the MapQuest
model. Interpret the results and indicate which prediction model should be used in the future.
(Do NOT include the calculated deviations here. Do include the graph and interpretation.)
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