A Company Selling Swimming Goggles Wants to Analyze Its Australian

Essay

A company selling swimming goggles wants to analyze its Australian sales figures.
Time series forecasting with regression was used to generate Excel output to estimate trend and seasonal effects of the time series of Swimming goggle sales (in thousands of dollars) where the origin is the March Quarter 2000 and Q1 denotes sales in the March quarter, Q3 denotes sales in the September quarter and Q4 denotes sales in the December quarter. $\begin{array}{l}\text { SUMMARV OUTPUT }\\\hline\text { Regression Stotitics }\\\begin{array}{lc}\hline \text { Multiple R } & 0.9460 \\\text { R Square } & 0.8950 \\\text { Adjusted RSquare } & 0.8864 \\\text { Standard Error } & 3.7394 \\\text { Observations } & 54 \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$
$\text { ANOVA }$
$\begin{array}{lccccc} \hline& & & & & \text { Sgnificance } \\& d f & S & M S & F & F \\\hline \text { Regression } & 4 & 5837.596003 & 1459.4 & 104.3701 & 2.41949 \mathrm{E}-23 \\\text { Residual } & 49 & 685.1632564 & 13.9829 & & \\\text { Total } & 53 & 6522.759259 & & &\\\hline\end{array}$
$\begin{array}{lcrrrrr}\hline&& \text { Standard } & & && \text { Upper } \\&\text { Coefficients } & \text { Error } & \text { t Stat } & \text {p-value } & \text { Lower } 95 \%& 95 \%\\\hline\text { Intercept } & 3.0588 & 1.3331 & 2.2944 & 0.0261 & 0.3797 & 5.7378 \\\mathrm{t} & 0.2518 & 0.0327 & 7.7052 & 0.0000 & 0.1861 & 0.3175 \\\mathrm{Q} 1 & 12.4604 & 1.3897 & 8.9664 & 0.0000 & 9.6677 & 15.2530 \\\mathrm{Q} 3 & 1.1458 & 1.4721 & 0.7784 & 0.4401 & -1.8124 & 4.1041 \\\mathrm{Q} 4 & 23.9121 & 1.4403 & 16.6025 & 0.0000 & 21.0177 & 26.8064\\\hline\end{array}$ (a) Using p-values test the significance of the independent variables.
(b) Test the significance of the overall regression equation.