Exam 13: Simple Linear Regression

TABLE 13-10 The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results: -Referring to Table 13-10, what is the value of the F test statistic when testing whether the number of customers who make purchases is a good predictor for weekly sales?

TABLE 13-10 The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results: -Referring to Table 13-10, what is the p-value of the t test statistic when testing whether the number of customers who make purchases affects weekly sales?

TABLE 13-12 The manager of the purchasing department of a large banking organization would like to develop a model to predict the amount of time (measured in hours) it takes to process invoices. Data are collected from a sample of 30 days, and the number of invoices processed and completion time in hours is recorded. Below is the regression output: Note: 4.3946E-15 is 4.3946×10^-15 -Referring to Table 13-12, what percentage of the variation in the amount of time needed can be explained by the variation in the number of invoices processed?

TABLE 13-7 An investment specialist claims that if one holds a portfolio that moves in the opposite direction to the market index like the S&P 500, then it is possible to reduce the variability of the portfolio's return. In other words, one can create a portfolio with positive returns but less exposure to risk. -Referring to Table 13-7, to test whether the prison stocks portfolio is negatively related to the S&P 500 index, the p-value of the associated test statistic is

TABLE 13-10 The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results: -Referring to Table 13-10, what is the value of the coefficient of correlation?

TABLE 13-4 The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new clients a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new clients they have enrolled in the last year and their sales amounts in thousands of dollars. These data are presented in the table that follows. -Referring to Table 13-4, the managers of the brokerage firm wanted to test the hypothesis that the number of new clients brought in had a positive impact on the amount of sales generated. The value of the test statistic is ________.

TABLE 13-4 The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new clients a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new clients they have enrolled in the last year and their sales amounts in thousands of dollars. These data are presented in the table that follows. -Referring to Table 13-4, the coefficient of correlation is ________.

TABLE 13-5 The managing partner of an advertising agency believes that his company's sales are related to the industry sales. He uses Microsoft Excel's Data Analysis tool to analyze the last 4 years of quarterly data with the following results: Regression Statistics ANOVA -Referring to Table 13-5, the partner wants to test for autocorrelation using the Durbin-Watson statistic. Using a level of significance of 0.05, the decision he should make is:

TABLE 13-5 The managing partner of an advertising agency believes that his company's sales are related to the industry sales. He uses Microsoft Excel's Data Analysis tool to analyze the last 4 years of quarterly data with the following results: Regression Statistics ANOVA -Referring to Table 13-5, the partner wants to test for autocorrelation using the Durbin-Watson statistic. Using a level of significance of 0.05, the critical values of the test are d_L = ________, and d_U = ________.

TABLE 13-9 It is believed that, the average numbers of hours spent studying per day (HOURS) during undergraduate education should have a positive linear relationship with the starting salary (SALARY, measured in thousands of dollars per month) after graduation. Given below is the Excel output from regressing starting salary on number of hours spent studying per day for a sample of 51 students. Note: Some of the numbers in the output are purposely erased. -Referring to Table 13-9, the value of the measured t-test statistic to test whether average SALARY depends linearly on HOURS is

TABLE 13-3 The director of cooperative education at a state college wants to examine the effect of cooperative education job experience on marketability in the work place. She takes a random sample of 4 students. For these 4, she finds out how many times each had a cooperative education job and how many job offers they received upon graduation. These data are presented in the table below. -Referring to Table 13-3, the regression sum of squares (SSR) is ________.

TABLE 13-12 The manager of the purchasing department of a large banking organization would like to develop a model to predict the amount of time (measured in hours) it takes to process invoices. Data are collected from a sample of 30 days, and the number of invoices processed and completion time in hours is recorded. Below is the regression output: Note: 4.3946E-15 is 4.3946×10^-15 -Referring to Table 13-12, the value of the measured t-test statistic to test whether the amount of time depends linearly on the number of invoices processed is

TABLE 13-8 It is believed that GPA (grade point average, based on a four point scale) should have a positive linear relationship with ACT scores. Given below is the Excel output from regressing GPA on ACT scores using a data set of 8 randomly chosen students from a Big-Ten university. -Referring to Table 13-8, the interpretation of the coefficient of determination in this regression is

When r = -1, it indicates a perfect relationship between X and Y.

Data that exhibit an autocorrelation effect violate the regression assumption of independence.

TABLE 13-10 The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results: -Referring to Table 13-10, what are the degrees of freedom of the t test statistic when testing whether the number of customers who make purchases affects weekly sales?

TABLE 13-3 The director of cooperative education at a state college wants to examine the effect of cooperative education job experience on marketability in the work place. She takes a random sample of 4 students. For these 4, she finds out how many times each had a cooperative education job and how many job offers they received upon graduation. These data are presented in the table below. -Referring to Table 13-3, the director of cooperative education wanted to test the hypothesis that the true slope was equal to 0. The denominator of the test statistic is s_b1. The value of s_b1 in this sample is ________.

TABLE 13-11 A computer software developer would like to use the number of downloads (in thousands) for the trial version of his new shareware to predict the amount of revenue (in thousands of dollars) he can make on the full version of the new shareware. Following is the output from a simple linear regression along with the residual plot and normal probability plot obtained from a data set of 30 different sharewares that he has developed: -Referring to Table 13-11, what are, respectively, the lower and upper limits of the 95% confidence interval estimate for population slope?

TABLE 13-3 The director of cooperative education at a state college wants to examine the effect of cooperative education job experience on marketability in the work place. She takes a random sample of 4 students. For these 4, she finds out how many times each had a cooperative education job and how many job offers they received upon graduation. These data are presented in the table below. -Referring to Table 13-3, the prediction for the number of job offers for a person with 2 coop jobs is ________.

TABLE 13-9 It is believed that, the average numbers of hours spent studying per day (HOURS) during undergraduate education should have a positive linear relationship with the starting salary (SALARY, measured in thousands of dollars per month) after graduation. Given below is the Excel output from regressing starting salary on number of hours spent studying per day for a sample of 51 students. Note: Some of the numbers in the output are purposely erased. -Referring to Table 13-9, the 90% confidence interval for the average change in SALARY (in thousands of dollars) as a result of spending an extra hour per day studying is