CHAPTER 13
Multiple Regression Analysis
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This chapter presents the potential of multiple regression analysis as a tool in business decision making and its applications, thereby enabling you to:
- Explain how, by extending the simple regression model to a multiple regression model with two independent variables, it is possible to determine the multiple regression equation for any number of unknowns.
- Examine significance tests of both the overall regression model and the regression coefficients.
- Calculate the residual, standard error of the estimate, coefficient of multiple determination, and adjusted coefficient of multiple determination of a regression model.
- Use a computer to find and interpret multiple regression outputs.
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