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4m Cost Accounting. Stine & Foster Chapter 6. Motivation. If the manufacturer can find a variable that is highly correlated with the final cost, how can it use this knowledge to improve the process that is used to quote a price ?. Method.
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4m Cost Accounting Stine & Foster Chapter 6
Motivation • If the manufacturer can find a variable that is highly correlated with the final cost, how can it use this knowledge to improve the process that is used to quote a price?
Method • What variable is the response? What are the possible explanatory variables? • How can the manufacturer use the correlation to identify variables that are related to this response? • Explain why it is important to consider scatterplots as well.
Mechanics • Obtain all of the scatterplots needed to understand the relationship between the response and the three explanatory variables. Briefly describe the association in each. • Obtain all of the correlations among these four variables. (These are most often displayed in a correlation matrix.) Which explanatory variable is highly correlated with the response? • Check the conditions for the correlation of the response with the three predictors. To the scatterplots suggest any problems that make these three correlations appear unreliable? • Adjust for any problems noted in part (g) and recompute the correlations.
Message • Which variable is most related to the response? • Explain in the context of this manufacturing situation where the correlation is not perfect and what this lack of perfection means for predicting the cost of an order.