Lisa Parsons, executive director of the Ferndale Community Wellness Center (FCWC), is concerned about recent route cuts
Question:
Lisa Parsons, executive director of the Ferndale Community Wellness Center (FCWC), is concerned about recent route cuts made by the Ferndale Transit Authority (FTA). Many of her clients do not own cars and rely on public transportation to get to FCWC. She would like to make the case to officials at the FTA that their route cuts have resulted in lower attendance at FCWC clinics and events. To bolster her case, she has collected weekly data on the number of client visits to FCWC (VISITS). She asks her intern to construct the following variables: TREND is a counter variable coded 1 the first week and increasing by 1 for each week in the series; SHORT is a short-term impact variable starting in the month the FTA instituted its route cuts; and LONG is a long-term impact variable also starting in the month the route cuts began. Upon generating a regression equation, what can the intern and Ms. Parsons conclude about the effects of the route cuts on attendance at FCWC?
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Applied Statistics For Public And Nonprofit Administration
ISBN: 9781111342807
8th Edition
Authors: Kenneth J. Meier, Jeffrey L. Brudney, John Bohte