Exam 13: Simple Linear Regression

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. Broker Clients Sales 1 27 52 2 11 37 3 42 64 4 33 55 5 15 29 6 15 34 7 25 58 8 36 59 9 28 44 10 30 48 11 17 31 12 22 38 -Referring to Table 13-4, the managers of the brokerage firm wanted to test the hypothesis that the true slope was equal to 0. The p-value of the test 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. Broker Cliente Sales 1 27 52 2 11 37 3 42 64 4 33 55 5 15 29 6 15 34 7 25 58 8 36 59 9 28 44 10 30 48 11 17 31 12 22 38 -Referring to Table 13-4, the standard error of the estimated slope coefficient is_______ .

TABLE 13-10 The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousand of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results: Customers Sales (Thousands of Dollars) 907 11.20 926 11.05 713 8.21 741 9.21 780 9.42 898 10.08 510 6.73 529 7.02 460 6.12 872 9.52 650 7.53 603 7.25 -Referring to Table 13-10, construct a 95% confidence interval for the average weekly sales when the number of customers who make purchases is 600.

TABLE 13-10 The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousand of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results: Customers Sales (Thousands of Dollars) 907 11.20 926 11.05 713 8.21 741 9.21 780 9.42 898 10.08 510 6.73 529 7.02 460 6.12 872 9.52 650 7.53 603 7.25 -Referring to Table 13-10, generate the residual plot.

The Chancellor of a university has commissioned a team to collect data on students' GPAs and the amount of time they spend bar hopping every week (measured in minutes). He wants to know if imposing much tougher regulations on all campus bars to make it more difficult for students to spend time in any campus bar will have a significant impact on general students' GPAs. His team should use a t test on the slope of the population regression.

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: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.9947 R Square 0.8924 Adjusted R Square 0.8886 Standard Error 0.3342 ations 30 d f SS MS F Significance F Regression 1 25.9438 25.9438 232.2200 4.3946-15 Residual 28 3.1282 0.1117 Total 29 29.072 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat p -value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Invoices 0.4024 0.1236 3.2559 0.0030 0.1492 0.6555 Processed 0.0126 0.0008 15.2388 4.3946-15 0.0109 0.0143 -Referring to Table 13-12, there is no evidence of positive autocorrelation if the Durbin-Watson test statistic is found to be 1.78.

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. Broker Cliente Sales 1 27 52 2 11 37 3 42 64 4 33 55 5 15 29 6 15 34 7 25 58 8 36 59 9 28 44 10 30 48 11 17 31 12 22 38 -Referring to Table 13-4, suppose the managers of the brokerage firm want to obtain a 99% confidence interval estimate for the mean sales made by brokers who have brought into the firm 24 new clients. The confidence interval is from _____to ________.

TABLE 13-2 A candy bar manufacturer is interested in trying to estimate how sales are influenced by the price of their product. To do this, the company randomly chooses 6 small cities and offers the candy bar at different prices. Using candy bar sales as the dependent variable, the company will conduct a simple linear regression on the data below: City Price (\ ) Sales River Falls 1.30 100 Hudson 1.60 90 Ellsworth 1.80 90 Prescott 2.00 40 Rock Elm 2.40 38 Stillwater 2.90 32 -Referring to Table 13-2, what percentage of the total variation in candy bar sales is explained by prices?

What do we mean when we say that a simple linear regression model is "statistically" useful?

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: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.9947 R Square 0.8924 Adjusted R Square 0.8886 Standard Error 0.3342 ations 30 d f SS MS F Significance F Regression 1 25.9438 25.9438 232.2200 4.3946-15 Residual 28 3.1282 0.1117 Total 29 29.072 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat p -value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Invoices 0.4024 0.1236 3.2559 0.0030 0.1492 0.6555 Processed 0.0126 0.0008 15.2388 4.3946-15 0.0109 0.0143 -Referring to Table 13-12, there is sufficient evidence that the amount of time needed linearly depends on the number of invoices processed at a 5% level of significance.

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: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.9947 R Square 0.8924 Adjusted R Square 0.8886 Standard Error 0.3342 ations 30 d f SS MS F Significance F Regression 1 25.9438 25.9438 232.2200 4.3946-15 Residual 28 3.1282 0.1117 Total 29 29.072 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat p -value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Invoices 0.4024 0.1236 3.2559 0.0030 0.1492 0.6555 Processed 0.0126 0.0008 15.2388 4.3946-15 0.0109 0.0143 -Referring to Table 13-12, predict the amount of time it would take to process 150 invoices.

TABLE 13-10 The management of a chainelectronicstore would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousandof dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers whomade purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the followingresults: Customers Sales (Thousands of Dollars) 907 11.20 926 11.05 713 8.21 741 9.21 780 9.42 898 10.08 510 6.73 529 7.02 460 6.12 872 9.52 650 7.53 603 7.25 -Referring to Table 13-10, the average weekly sales will increase by an estimated $0.01 for each additional purchasing customer.

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. Student CoopJobs JobOffer 1 1 4 2 2 6 3 1 3 4 0 1 -Referring to Table 13-3, suppose the director of cooperative education wants to obtain two 95% confidence interval estimates. One is for the mean number of job offers received by people who have had exactly one cooperative education job and one for people who have had two. The confidence interval for people who have had one cooperative education job would be the wider of the two intervals.

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. Broker Clients Sales 1 27 52 2 11 37 3 42 64 4 33 55 5 15 29 6 15 34 7 25 58 8 36 59 9 28 44 10 30 48 11 17 31 12 22 38 -Referring to Table 13-4, the error or residual sum of squares (SSE) is _______.

In a simple linear regression problem, r and b₁

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. Student CoopJobs JobOffer 1 1 4 2 2 6 3 1 3 4 0 1 -Referring to Table 13-3, the prediction for the number of job offers for a person with 2 coop jobs is ______ .

TABLE 13-2 A candy bar manufacturer is interested in trying to estimate how sales are influenced by the price of their product. To do this, the company randomly chooses 6 small cities and offers the candy bar at different prices. Using candy bar sales as the dependent variable, the company will conduct a simple linear regression on the data below: City Price (\ ) Sales River Falls 1.30 100 Hudson 1.60 90 Ellsworth 1.80 90 Prescott 2.00 40 Rock Elm 2.40 38 Stillwater 2.90 32 -Referring to Table 13-2, what is the standard error of the estimate, SYX, for the data?

TABLE 13-10 The management of a chain electronic store would like to develop a model for predicting the weekly sales (in thousand of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results: Customers Sales (Thousands of Dollars) 907 11.20 926 11.05 713 8.21 741 9.21 780 9.42 898 10.08 510 6.73 529 7.02 460 6.12 872 9.52 650 7.53 603 7.25 -Referring to Table 13-10, 93.98% of the total variation in weekly sales can be explained by the variation in the number of customers who make purchases.

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. A sample of 26 years of S&P 500 index and a portfolio consisting of stocks of private prisons, which are believed to be negatively related to the S&P 500 index, is collected. A regression analysis was performed by regressing the returns of the prison stocks portfolio (Y) on the returns of S&P 500 index (X) to prove that the prison stocks portfolio is negatively related to the S&P 500 index at a 5% level of significance. The results are given in the following EXCEL output. Coefficients Standard Error T Stat p -value Intercept 4.866004258 0.35743609 13.61363441 8.7932-13 S\& P -0.502513506 0.071597152 -7.01862425 294942-07 -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 thousand of dollars) for individual stores based on the number of customers who made purchases. A random sample of 12 stores yields the following results: Customers Sales (Thousands of Dollars) 907 11.20 926 11.05 713 8.21 741 9.21 780 9.42 898 10.08 510 6.73 529 7.02 460 6.12 872 9.52 650 7.53 603 7.25 -Referring to Table 13-3, suppose the director of cooperative education wants to obtain a 95% confidence interval estimate for the mean number of job offers received by people who have had exactly one cooperative education job. The confidence interval is from____to ____ .