Consider the following model used to estimate how a hamburger chain’s weekly revenue tr depends on price p, and advertising expenditure a
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Consider the following model used to estimate how a hamburger chain’s weekly revenue tr depends on price p, and advertising expenditure a
tr 1 2
p 3at t
where price p is measured in Euro while total revenue tr and advertising expenditure a are measured in Euro (000s).
The least squares output from estimating this equation appears in TABLE 1.0 below
(a) Calculate estimated error variance ˆ 2 and standard error. (10%)
(b) Calculate the R 2 . (15%)
(c) Calculate the t-statistic for ˆ 2 and using the test of significance approach, without using the reported p-value, explain how you would test the null hypothesis that 0 2 . (10%)
(d) Interpret the p-value = 0.0427 given above, and say how this can be used to test for significance (i.e. to test the null hypothesis that 0 2 ). (15%)
(e) Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the true population parameter 3 . (15%) What does the interval tell you (i.e. in what are you 95% confident)? (5%) Test the hypothesis that advertising expenditure has no effect on the firm’s weekly total revenue. (5%) 3
(f) Test the joint hypothesis that
0 2
and
0 3
(that is,
0 2 3
) using
the F-test at the 5 per cent level of significance.
