Exam 12: Simple Linear Regression

SCENARIO 12-11 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: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.8691 R Square 0.7554 Adjusted R Square 0.7467 Standard Error 44.4765 Observations 30.0000 $\text { ANOVA }$ df SS MS F Significance F Regression 1 171062.9193 171062.9193 86.4759 0.0000 Residual 28 55388.4309 1978.1582 Total 29 226451.3503 Simple Linear Regression 12-41 -Referring to Scenario 12-11, what is the critical value for testing whether there is a linear relationship between revenue and the number of downloads at a 5% level of significance?

The standard error of the estimate is a measure of

The strength of the linear relationship between two numerical variables may be measured by the

SCENARIO 12-4 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 Scenario 12-4, the total sum of squares (SST) is .

The Durbin-Watson D statistic is used to check the assumption of normality.

A zero population correlation coefficient between a pair of random variables means that there is no linear relationship between the random variables.

If the residuals in a regression analysis of time-ordered data are not correlated, the value of theDurbin-Watson D statistic should be near _.

SCENARIO 12-10 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: 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 Scenario 12-10, what is the p-value of the t test statistic when testing whether the number of customers who make a purchase affects weekly sales?

SCENARIO 12-2 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: $\begin{array}{llr}\text { City }&\text { Price(\$)}&\text { Sales }\\\text { River Falls } & 1.30 & 100 \\\text { Hudson } & 1.60 & 90 \\\text { Ellsworth } & 1.80 & 90 \\\text { Prescott } & 2.00 & 40 \\\text { Rock Elm } & 2.40 & 38 \\\text { Stillwater } & 2.90 & 32\end{array}$ -Referring to Scenario 12-2, what is the estimated slope for the candy bar price and sales data?

14.Referring to Scenario 12-2, what is the standard error of the regression slope estimate, S ? $b$ 1 a) 0.784 b) 0.885 c) 12.650 d) 16.299 ANSWER: c TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Moderate KEYWORDS: standard error, slope -Referring to Scenario 12-2, to test whether a change in price will have any impact on sales, what would be the critical values? Use $\alpha$ = 0.05.

SCENARIO 12-13 In this era of tough economic conditions, voters increasingly ask the question: "Is the educational achievement level of students dependent on the amount of money the state in which they reside spends on education?" The partial computer output below is the result of using spending per student ($) as the independent variable and composite score which is the sum of the math, science and reading scores as the dependent variable on 35 states that participated in a study.The table includes only partial results. Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.3122 R Square 0.0975 Adjusted R 0.0701 Square Standard 26.9122 Error Observations 35 ANOVA df SS MS F Regression 1 2581.5759 Residual 724.2674 Total 34 26482.4000 $\begin{array}{l}\begin{array} { l c c c c } \hline & \text { Coefficients } & \text { Standard Error } & t \text { Stat } & P \text {-value } \\\hline \text { Intercept } & 595.540251 & 22.115176 & & \\\text { Spending per } & & & & \\\text { Student(\$) } & 0.007996 & 0.004235 & \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$ -Referring to Scenario 12-13, the decision on the test of whether composite score depends linearly on spending per student using a 10% level of significance is to (reject or not reject) H0 .

SCENARIO 12-7 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 StandardError T Stat P -value Intercept 4.8660 0.3574 13.6136 0.0000 S\&P -0.5025 0.0716 -7.0186 0.0000 -Referring to Scenario 12-7, to test whether the prison stocks portfolio is negatively related to the S&P 500 index, the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses are, respectively,

If the Durbin-Watson statistic has a value close to 0, which assumption is violated?

SCENARIO 12-13 In this era of tough economic conditions, voters increasingly ask the question: "Is the educational achievement level of students dependent on the amount of money the state in which they reside spends on education?" The partial computer output below is the result of using spending per student ($) as the independent variable and composite score which is the sum of the math, science and reading scores as the dependent variable on 35 states that participated in a study.The table includes only partial results. Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.3122 R Square 0.0975 Adjusted R 0.0701 Square Standard 26.9122 Error Observations 35 ANOVA df SS MS F Regression 1 2581.5759 Residual 724.2674 Total 34 26482.4000 $\begin{array}{l}\begin{array} { l c c c c } \hline & \text { Coefficients } & \text { Standard Error } & t \text { Stat } & P \text {-value } \\\hline \text { Intercept } & 595.540251 & 22.115176 & & \\\text { Spending per } & & & & \\\text { Student(\$) } & 0.007996 & 0.004235 & \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$ -Referring to Scenario 12-13, the decision on the test of whether spending per student affects composite score using a 5% level of significance is to (reject or not reject) H0 .

SCENARIO 12-10 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: 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 Scenario 12-10, 93.98% of the total variation in weekly sales can be explained by the variation in the number of customers who make purchases.

SCENARIO 12-3 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 Coop Jobs Job Offer 1 1 4 2 2 6 3 1 3 4 0 1 -Referring to Scenario 12-3, the total sum of squares (SST) is .

SCENARIO 12-4 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 Scenario 12-4, the least squares estimate of the Y-intercept is _.

SCENARIO 12-12 The manager of the purchasing department of a large saving and loan organization would like to develop a model to predict the amount of time (measured in hours) it takes to record a loan application.Data are collected from a sample of 30 days, and the number of applications recorded and completion time in hours is recorded.Below is the regression output: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.9447 R Square 0.8924 Adjusted R 0.8886 Square Standard 0.3342 Error Observations 30 ANOVA df 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\% Intercept 0.4024 0.1236 3.2559 0.0030 0.1492 0.6555 Applications 0.0126 0.0008 15.2388 0.0000 0.0109 0.0143 Recorded 12-46 Simple Linear Regression Simple Linear Regression 12-47 -Referring to Scenario 12-12, there is sufficient evidence that the amount of time needed linearly depends on the number of loan applications at a 1% level of significance.

SCENARIO 12-3 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 Coop Jobs Job Offer 1 1 4 2 2 6 3 1 3 4 0 1 -Referring to Scenario 12-3, the coefficient of determination is .

SCENARIO 12-12 The manager of the purchasing department of a large saving and loan organization would like to develop a model to predict the amount of time (measured in hours) it takes to record a loan application.Data are collected from a sample of 30 days, and the number of applications recorded and completion time in hours is recorded.Below is the regression output: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.9447 R Square 0.8924 Adjusted R 0.8886 Square Standard 0.3342 Error Observations 30 ANOVA df 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\% Intercept 0.4024 0.1236 3.2559 0.0030 0.1492 0.6555 Applications 0.0126 0.0008 15.2388 0.0000 0.0109 0.0143 Recorded 12-46 Simple Linear Regression Simple Linear Regression 12-47 -Referring to Scenario 12-12, the degrees of freedom for the t test on whether the number of loan applications recorded affects the amount of time are