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16. A box office analyst seeks to predict opening weekend box office gross for movies. Toward this goal, the analyst plans to use online trailer
16. A box office analyst seeks to predict opening weekend box office gross for movies. Toward this goal, the analyst plans to use online trailer views as a predictor. For each of the 66 movies, the number of online trailer views from the release of the trailer through the Saturday before a movie opens and the opening weekend box office gross (in millions of dollars) are collected and stored in the accompanying table. The least-squares regression equation for these data is
Yi=1.492+1.426Xi and the standard error of the estimate is SYX=20.088.
Assume that the straight-line model is appropriate and there are no serious violations the assumptions of the least-squares regression model. Complete parts (a) and (b) below.
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