In: Statistics and Probability
A local shop owner would like to know if he can predict weekly sales by knowing the number of customers who visit his shop in the week. He takes a random sample of 10 weeks from the previous year, recording the number of customers and the sales in thousands of dollars. The results are summarized in the table below. He has assumed that the sales are normally distributed.
week | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
customers | 794 | 799 | 837 | 855 | 845 | 844 | 863 | 875 | 880 | 841 |
sales($000) | 9.33 | 8.26 | 7.48 | 9.08 | 9.83 | 10.09 | 11.01 | 11.49 | 12.07 | 9.64 |
a. Find the equation for the regression line.
b. Interpret the slope in terms of this problem.
c. Interpret the y-intercept for this problem.
d. Interpret the coefficient of determination in terms of this problem.
e. Find the correlation coefficient.
f. If 800 customers visited his shop in one week, what would he predict as his sales for that week?
g. If 700 customers visited his shop in one week, what would he predict as his sales for that week?
h. Do the data indicate a strong linear relationship between the number of customers and sales at the 5% significance level?