To study how social media may influence the products consumers buy, researchers collected the opening weekend box office revenue (in millions of dollars) for 23 recent movies and the social media message rate (average number of messages referring to the movie per hour). The data are available below. Conduct a complete simple linear regression analysis of the relationship between revenue
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Revenue and Message Rate for Recent Movies \table[[,],[Message Rate,Revenue ($millions)],[1367.2,140],[1214.1,77],[576.2,66],[309.1,36],[451.4,34],[291.3,33],[245.9,25],[684.3,22],[154.2,21],[160.2,21],[108.3,21],[142.8,20],[415.2,20],[94.2,20],[103.8,20],[122.1,20],[77.9,19],[87.2,18],[127.6,6],[54.1,6],[140.7,5],[35.9,2],[4.6,2]]