A Hospital Analyzed for several randomly selected employees, the relationship between the employee's annual number of unauthorized work absences (in days) and the distance the employee must travel between home and work (in 10s of miles). The regression analysis showed n= 15, SS_xx = 24.56, SS_yy= 69.60, and SS_xy =-38.20

What is the best estimate of the true error variance?

A. 0.7834

B. 0.6790

C. None are correct

D. 0.8851

E. 1.0185