What is the independent variable (X) and what is the

A. What is the independent variable (X) and what is the dependent variable (y)

B. Write a null and alternative hypothesis statement

C. What is the R-squared value and interpret it’s meaning?

D. What is the correlation coefficient and interpret it’s meaning?

E. Predict the receipts for a movie that has a Twitter activity of 100,000 using the linear regression formula generated after you run the regression analysis in Excel (just like we did in the lecture notes)

F. At the 95% significance level, is there significant evidence of a relationship between Twitter activity and receipts?

G. Do you accept or reject the null hypothesis?

H. Based upon your answers above, provide us with a paragraph (3-4 sentence) conclusion that would be appropriate to explain the results to a senior executive that isn’t as familiar with statistics as you are!

Part 2 – Two Sample Hypothesis Testing

Using the Retirement funds spreadsheet, please determine if there is a significant difference between the average rate of return on Large Value and Large Growth stock funds.

I. What are the two variables of interest?

J. Write a null and alternative hypothesis statement

K. At the 95% significance level, is there significant evidence of a difference between fund rate of returns?

L. Do you accept or reject the null hypothesis?

M. Based upon your answer above, provide us with a paragraph (3-4 sentence) conclusion that would be appropriate to explain the results to a senior executive that isn’t as familiar with statistics as you are!