A company wants to study therelationship between an employee's length of employment and theirnumber of workdays absent. The company collected the followinginformation on a random sample of seven employees.
Number of Workdays Absent | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
Length of Employment (in yrs) | 5 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
- What is the independent variable (X)?
- What is the dependent variable (Y)?
- What is the slope of the linear equation?
- What is the Y intercept of the linear equation?
5.What is the leastsquares equation for the data?
6.What is themeaning of a negative slope?
7.What is the standard error ofestimate?
