An analyst runs a simple linear regression using 35 months of data to assess a country's short-term interest rate as a function of its inflation rate, with the following results:(含图)
Critical t-values for a 1% level of significance: One-sided, left side: −2.445
One-sided, right side: +2.445
Two-sided: ±2.733
At a 99% confidence level, the analyst should reject the null hypothesis that: