Topic
Financial Data
Instructions
Read Sections 12.1-12.3 and 12.6 in Ch. 12 of Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making.
Consider the following as you read:
- How regression modeling can be used to understand the association between two variables.
- Focus on intuition rather than formulas to arrive at the regression model.
Answer preview
This analysis will entail looking at factors affecting earnings per share. According to Guértin (2014), this is an important subject to look at since it is the selling image of a company to the investor. The report will cut across different companies from different markets. This will make is to be unbiased since a larger and well distributed sample size is selected. The population size for this study are all companies located in USA. The study will rely on secondary data which is available form specific companies’ website. The sample consists of seven companies from apparel, chemical, electric power, grocery, healthcare, insurance and petroleum industries.
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