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. SUMMARY OUTPUT
$\begin{array}{l}\hline\text { Regression Statistios }\\\begin{array}{lc}\hline\text { Multiple R } & 0.9460 \\\text { R Square } & 0.8950 \\\text { Adjusted R Square } & 0.8864 \\\text { Standard Error } & 3.7394 \\\text { Obserwations } & 54 \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$

$\text { ANOYA }$
$\begin{array}{lcrrrr} & d f & S S & M S & F & \text { Significance F } \\\hline \text { Regression } & 4 & 5837.596003 & 1459.4 & 104.3701 & 2.41949 \mathrm{E}-23 \\\text { Residual } & 49 & 685.1632564 & 13.9829 & \\\text { Total } & 53 & 6522.759259 & & \\\hline\end{array}$

$\begin{array}{lcrrrrrr} & \text { Coeffients } & \text { Standard Error } & \text { tStat } & \text { P-value } & \text { Lower } 95 \% & \text { Upper } 95 \% \\\hline \text { Intercept } & 3.0588 & 1.3331 & 2.2944 & 0.0261 & 0.3797 & 5.7378 \\\mathrm{t} & 0.2518 & 0.0327 & 7.7052 & 0.0000 & 0.1861 & 0.3175 \\\mathrm{Q} 1 & 12.4604 & 1.3897 & 89664 & 0.0000 & 9.6677 & 15.2530 \\\mathrm{Q} 3& 1.1458 & 1.4721 & 0.7784 & 0.4401 & -1.8124 & 4.1041 \\\mathrm{Q}4 & 23.9121 & 1.4403 & 16.6025 & 0.0000 & 21.0177 & 26.8064 \\\hline\end{array}$ (a) Using p-values test the significance of the independent variables.
(b) Test the significance of the overall regression equation.