school
Acemy

Carrying Out a Test for the Slope of a Regression Model

AP Statistics· difficulty 2/5

A regression output for n = 18 reports slope p-value of 0.183.

Output (n=18) Pred Coef t p x 0.40 1.40 0.183

At alpha = 0.05, what conclusion?

  • A

    Slope is exactly 0

  • B

    Fail to reject H0; insufficient evidence of nonzero slope

    check_circle
  • C

    Reject H0

  • D

    Accept H0

Explanation

With p = 0.183 > alpha = 0.05, fail to reject H0; insufficient evidence of a non-zero linear relationship.

Want 10 more like this — adaptive to your weak spots?

Practice 10 like thisarrow_forwardPredict my AP score

Related questions

auto_awesomeAll Toolsquestion_answerHomework Q&Amenu_bookAP & SAT PreptimelineLearn Mode