A regression model involved 8 independent variables and 153 observations. The critical value of t for testing the significance of each of the independent variable's coefficients will have ________ degrees of freedom.

To monitor and improve its productivity, a company made an investigation and found out that the factor that affects the productivity the most is the absenteeism. The company data analytics department have collected data about the two variables (Productivity and Absenteeism) for the 12 past years as shown in the table below. Now the purpose of the company is to determine, through regression analysis, whether the productivity is statistically affected by the absenteeism level or not. Year Absenteeism Productivity (in number of absent worker) (in Million AED) 1 204 342 2 352 336 3 154 406 4 206 410 5 422 278 6 530 214 7 750 138 8 482 268 9 374 262 10 120 356 11 188 396 12 634 152 Questions: Construct a scatter diagram for the data about productivity and absenteeism then interpret the possible relationship that can be found. Construct a simple regression model to predict the…