Exam 13: Multiple Regression

SCENARIO 13-15 The superintendent of a school district wanted to predict the percentage of students passing a sixth- grade proficiency test.She obtained the data on percentage of students passing the proficiency test (% Passing), mean teacher salary in thousands of dollars (Salaries), and instructional spending per pupil in thousands of dollars (Spending) of 47 schools in the state. Following is the multiple regression output with Y = % Passing as the dependent variable, X1 = Salaries and X 2 = Spending: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.4276 R Square 0.1828 Adjusted R Square 0.1457 Standard Error 5.7351 Observations 47 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F Regression 2 323.8284 161.9142 4.9227 0.0118 Residual 44 1447.2094 32.8911 Total 46 1771.0378 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept -72.9916 45.9106 -1.5899 0.1190 -165.5184 19.5352 Salary 2.7939 0.8974 3.1133 0.0032 0.9853 4.6025 Spending 0.3742 0.9782 0.3825 0.7039 -1.5972 2.3455 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-15, you can conclude definitively that mean teacher salary individually has no impact on the mean percentage of students passing the proficiency test, considering the effect of that instructional spending per pupil, at a 10% level of significancebased solely on but not actually computing the 90% confidence interval estimate for $\beta$ 1 .

SCENARIO 13-17 Given below are results from the regression analysis where the dependent variable is the number of weeks a worker is unemployed due to a layoff (Unemploy) and the independent variables are the age of the worker (Age) and a dummy variable for management position (Manager: 1 = yes, 0 = no). The results of the regression analysis are given below: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.6391 R Square 0.4085 Adjusted R Square 0.3765 Standard Error 18.8929 Observations 40 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F Regression 2 9119.0897 4559.5448 12.7740 0.0000 Residual 37 13206.8103 356.9408 Total 39 22325.9 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P -value Intercept -0.2143 11.5796 -0.0185 0.9853 Age 1.4448 0.3160 4.5717 0.0000 Manager -22.5761 11.3488 -1.9893 0.0541 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-17, what is the p-value of the test statistic when testing whether age has any effect on the number of weeks a worker is unemployed due to a layoff while holding constant the effect of the other independent variable?

SCENARIO 13-11 A weight-loss clinic wants to use regression analysis to build a model for weight loss of a client (measured in pounds).Two variables thought to affect weight loss are client's length of time on the weight-loss program and time of session.These variables are described below: Y = Weight loss (in pounds) X1 = Length of time in weight-loss program (in months) X2 = 1 if morning session, 0 if not Data for 25 clients on a weight-loss program at the clinic were collected and used to fit the interaction model: $Y = \beta _ { 0 } + \beta _ { 1 } X _ { 1 } + \beta _ { 2 } X _ { 2 } + \beta _ { 3 } X _ { 1 } X _ { 2 } + \varepsilon$ Output from Microsoft Excel follows: Multiple R 0.7308 R Square 0.5341 Adjusted R Square 0.4675 Standard Error 43.3275 Observations 25 ANOVA df SS MS Significance F Regression 3 45194.0661 15064.6887 8.0248 0.0009 Residual 21 39422.6542 1877.2692 Total 24 84616.7203 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 99\% Upper 99\% Intercept -20.7298 22.3710 -0.9266 0.3646 -84.0702 42.6106 Length 7.2472 1.4992 4.8340 0.0001 3.0024 11.4919 Morn 90.1981 40.2336 2.2419 0.0359 -23.7176 204.1138 Length x Morn -5.1024 3.3511 -1.5226 0.1428 -14.5905 4.3857 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-11, in terms of the $\beta$ s in the model, give the mean change in weight loss (Y) for every 1 month increase in time on the program (X1) when not attending the morning session.

SCENARIO 13-8 A financial analyst wanted to examine the relationship between salary (in $1,000) and 2 variables: age (X1 = Age) and experience in the field (X2 = Exper).He took a sample of 20 employees and obtained the following Microsoft Excel output: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.8535 R Square 0.7284 Adjusted R Square 0.6964 Standard Error 10.5630 Observations 20 ANOYA df SS MS F Siqnificonce F Regression 2 5086.5764 2543.2882 22.7941 0.0000 Residual 17 1896.8050 111.5768 Total 19 6983.3814 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept 1.5740 9.2723 0.1698 0.8672 -17.9888 21.1368 Age 1.3045 0.1956 6.6678 0.0000 0.8917 1.7173 Exper -0.1478 0.1944 -0.7604 0.4574 -0.5580 0.2624 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-8, the analyst decided to construct a 95% confidence interval for $\beta$ 2 .The confidence interval is from to .

SCENARIO 13-18 A logistic regression model was estimated in order to predict the probability that a randomly chosen university or college would be a private university using information on mean total Scholastic Aptitude Test score (SAT) at the university or college and whether the TOEFL criterion is at least 90 (Toefl90 = 1 if yes, 0 otherwise.) The dependent variable, Y, is school type (Type = 1 if private and 0 otherwise).There are 80 universities in the sample. The PHStat output is given below: Binary Logistic Regression Predictor Coefficients SE Coef Z p -Value Intercept -3.9594 1.6741 -2.3650 0.0180 SAT 0.0028 0.0011 2.5459 0.0109 Toefl90:1 0.1928 0.5827 0.3309 0.7407 Deviance 101.9826 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-18, what are the degrees of freedom for the chi-square distribution when testing whether the model is a good-fitting model?

SCENARIO 13-15 The superintendent of a school district wanted to predict the percentage of students passing a sixth- grade proficiency test.She obtained the data on percentage of students passing the proficiency test (% Passing), mean teacher salary in thousands of dollars (Salaries), and instructional spending per pupil in thousands of dollars (Spending) of 47 schools in the state. Following is the multiple regression output with Y = % Passing as the dependent variable, X1 = Salaries and X 2 = Spending: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.4276 R Square 0.1828 Adjusted R Square 0.1457 Standard Error 5.7351 Observations 47 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F Regression 2 323.8284 161.9142 4.9227 0.0118 Residual 44 1447.2094 32.8911 Total 46 1771.0378 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept -72.9916 45.9106 -1.5899 0.1190 -165.5184 19.5352 Salary 2.7939 0.8974 3.1133 0.0032 0.9853 4.6025 Spending 0.3742 0.9782 0.3825 0.7039 -1.5972 2.3455 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-15, the null hypothesis should be rejected at a 5% level of significance when testing whether there is a significant relationship between percentage of students passing the proficiency test and the entire set of explanatory variables.

SCENARIO 13-5 A microeconomist wants to determine how corporate sales are influenced by capital and wage spending by companies.She proceeds to randomly select 26 large corporations and record information in millions of dollars.The Microsoft Excel output below shows results of this multiple regression. SUMMARY OUTPUT Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.830 R Square 0.689 Adjusted R Square 0.662 Standard Error 17501.643 Observations 26 ANOVA df SS MS F Signif F Regression 2 15579777040 7789888520 25.432 0.0001 Residual 23 7045072780 306307512 Total 25 22624849820 Coeff StdError t Stat P -value Intercept 15800.0000 6038.2999 2.617 0.0154 Capital 0.1245 0.2045 0.609 0.5485 Wages 7.0762 1.4729 4.804 0.0001 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-5, which of the independent variables in the model are significant at the 5% level?

You have just computed a regression model in which the value of coefficient of multiple determination is 0.57.To determine if this indicates that the independent variables explain a significant portion of the variation in the dependent variable, you would perform an F- test.

SCENARIO 13-13 An econometrician is interested in evaluating the relationship of demand for building materials to mortgage rates in Los Angeles and San Francisco.He believes that the appropriate model is $Y = 10 + 5 X _ { 1 } + 8 X _ { 2 }$ where = mortgage rate in \% =1 if SF, 0 if LA Y= demand in \ 100 per capita -Referring to SCENARIO 13-13, holding constant the effect of city, each additional increase of1% in the mortgage rate would lead to an estimated increase of in the mean demand.

When an explanatory variable is dropped from a multiple regression model, the adjusted r 2 can increase.

A regression had the following results: SST = 102.55, SSE = 82.04.It can be said that 90.0% of the variation in the dependent variable is explained by the independent variables in the regression.

SCENARIO 13-2 A professor of industrial relations believes that an individual's wage rate at a factory (Y) depends on his performance rating (X1) and the number of economics courses the employee successfully completed in college (X2).The professor randomly selects 6 workers and collects the following information: Employee Y(\ ) 1 10 3 0 2 12 1 5 3 15 8 1 4 17 5 8 5 20 7 12 6 25 10 9 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-2, for these data, what is the estimated coefficient for performance rating, b1?

SCENARIO 13-17 Given below are results from the regression analysis where the dependent variable is the number of weeks a worker is unemployed due to a layoff (Unemploy) and the independent variables are the age of the worker (Age) and a dummy variable for management position (Manager: 1 = yes, 0 = no). The results of the regression analysis are given below: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.6391 R Square 0.4085 Adjusted R Square 0.3765 Standard Error 18.8929 Observations 40 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F Regression 2 9119.0897 4559.5448 12.7740 0.0000 Residual 37 13206.8103 356.9408 Total 39 22325.9 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P -value Intercept -0.2143 11.5796 -0.0185 0.9853 Age 1.4448 0.3160 4.5717 0.0000 Manager -22.5761 11.3488 -1.9893 0.0541 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-17, we can conclude definitively that, holding constant the effect of the other independent variables, there is not a difference in the mean number of weeks a worker is unemployed due to a layoff between a worker who is in a management position and one who is not at a 1% level of significance if all we have is the information of the 95% confidence interval estimate for the difference in the mean number ofweeks a worker is unemployed due to a layoff between a worker who is in a management position and one who is not.

SCENARIO 13-1 A manager of a product sales group believes the number of sales made by an employee (Y) depends on how many years that employee has been with the company (X1) and how he/she scored on a business aptitude test (X2).A random sample of 8 employees provides the following: Emplovee Y 1 100 10 7 2 90 3 10 3 80 8 9 4 70 5 4 5 60 5 8 6 50 7 5 7 40 1 4 8 30 1 1 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-1, for these data, what is the value for the regression constant, b0?

SCENARIO 13-15 The superintendent of a school district wanted to predict the percentage of students passing a sixth- grade proficiency test.She obtained the data on percentage of students passing the proficiency test (% Passing), mean teacher salary in thousands of dollars (Salaries), and instructional spending per pupil in thousands of dollars (Spending) of 47 schools in the state. Following is the multiple regression output with Y = % Passing as the dependent variable, X1 = Salaries and X 2 = Spending: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.4276 R Square 0.1828 Adjusted R Square 0.1457 Standard Error 5.7351 Observations 47 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F Regression 2 323.8284 161.9142 4.9227 0.0118 Residual 44 1447.2094 32.8911 Total 46 1771.0378 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept -72.9916 45.9106 -1.5899 0.1190 -165.5184 19.5352 Salary 2.7939 0.8974 3.1133 0.0032 0.9853 4.6025 Spending 0.3742 0.9782 0.3825 0.7039 -1.5972 2.3455 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-15, which of the following is the correct alternative hypothesis to test whether instructional spending per pupil has any effect on percentage of students passing the proficiency test, considering the effect of mean teacher salary? a) $H _ { 1 } : \beta _ { 0 } \neq 0$ b) $H _ { 1 } : \beta _ { 1 } \neq 0$ c) $H _ { 1 } : \beta _ { 2 } \neq 0$ d) $H _ { 1 } : \beta _ { 3 } \neq 0$

If a categorical independent variable contains 2 categories, then dummy variable(s)will be needed to uniquely represent these categories.

SCENARIO 13-15 The superintendent of a school district wanted to predict the percentage of students passing a sixth- grade proficiency test.She obtained the data on percentage of students passing the proficiency test (% Passing), mean teacher salary in thousands of dollars (Salaries), and instructional spending per pupil in thousands of dollars (Spending) of 47 schools in the state. Following is the multiple regression output with Y = % Passing as the dependent variable, X1 = Salaries and X 2 = Spending: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.4276 R Square 0.1828 Adjusted R Square 0.1457 Standard Error 5.7351 Observations 47 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F Regression 2 323.8284 161.9142 4.9227 0.0118 Residual 44 1447.2094 32.8911 Total 46 1771.0378 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept -72.9916 45.9106 -1.5899 0.1190 -165.5184 19.5352 Salary 2.7939 0.8974 3.1133 0.0032 0.9853 4.6025 Spending 0.3742 0.9782 0.3825 0.7039 -1.5972 2.3455 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-15, the alternative hypothesis H 1: At least one of $\beta$ j $\neq$ 0 for j =1, 2 implies that percentage of students passing the proficiency test is affected by at least one of the explanatory variables.

SCENARIO 13-17 Given below are results from the regression analysis where the dependent variable is the number of weeks a worker is unemployed due to a layoff (Unemploy) and the independent variables are the age of the worker (Age) and a dummy variable for management position (Manager: 1 = yes, 0 = no). The results of the regression analysis are given below: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.6391 R Square 0.4085 Adjusted R Square 0.3765 Standard Error 18.8929 Observations 40 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F Regression 2 9119.0897 4559.5448 12.7740 0.0000 Residual 37 13206.8103 356.9408 Total 39 22325.9 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P -value Intercept -0.2143 11.5796 -0.0185 0.9853 Age 1.4448 0.3160 4.5717 0.0000 Manager -22.5761 11.3488 -1.9893 0.0541 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-17, which of the following is the correct alternative hypothesis to test whether age has any effect on the number of weeks a worker is unemployed due to a layoff while holding constant the effect of the other independent variable?

The variation attributable to factors other than the relationship between the independent variables and the explained variable in a regression analysis is represented by

SCENARIO 13-15 The superintendent of a school district wanted to predict the percentage of students passing a sixth- grade proficiency test.She obtained the data on percentage of students passing the proficiency test (% Passing), mean teacher salary in thousands of dollars (Salaries), and instructional spending per pupil in thousands of dollars (Spending) of 47 schools in the state. Following is the multiple regression output with Y = % Passing as the dependent variable, X1 = Salaries and X 2 = Spending: Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.4276 R Square 0.1828 Adjusted R Square 0.1457 Standard Error 5.7351 Observations 47 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F Regression 2 323.8284 161.9142 4.9227 0.0118 Residual 44 1447.2094 32.8911 Total 46 1771.0378 Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept -72.9916 45.9106 -1.5899 0.1190 -165.5184 19.5352 Salary 2.7939 0.8974 3.1133 0.0032 0.9853 4.6025 Spending 0.3742 0.9782 0.3825 0.7039 -1.5972 2.3455 -Referring to SCENARIO 13-15, there is sufficient evidence that both of the explanatory variables are related to the percentage of students passing the proficiency test at a 5% level of significance.