Exam 13: Simple Linear Regression

TABLE 13-1 A large national bank charges local companies for using their services.A bank official reported the results of a regression analysis designed to predict the bank's charges (Y)measured in dollars per monthfor services rendered to local companies.One independent variable used to predict service charges to a company is the company's sales revenue (X)measured in millions of dollars.Data for 21 companies who use the bank's services were used to fit the model: Yᵢ = β₀ + β₁Xi + Eᵢ The results of the simple linear regression are provided below. -Referring to Table 13-1,interpret the estimate of σ,the standard deviation of the random error term (standard error of the estimate)in the model.

TABLE 13-13 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. -Referring to Table 13-13,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.

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 a purchase affects weekly sales?

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

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,suppose the managers of the brokerage firm want to construct 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 13-13 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. -Referring to Table 13-13,the degrees of freedom for the F test on whether spending per student affects composite score are ________.

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,the Durbin-Watson statistic is inappropriate for this data set.

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,suppose the director of cooperative education wants to construct two 95% confidence interval estimates.One is for the mean number of job offers received by students who have had exactly one cooperative education job and one for people who have had two.The confidence interval for students 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. -Referring to Table 13-4,the error or residual sum of squares (SSE)is ________.

TABLE 13-12 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: Note: 4.3946E-15 is 4.3946 × -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 loan applications recorded 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,predict the revenue when the number of downloads is 30 thousands.

TABLE 13-13 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. -Referring to Table 13-13,the critical value at 5% level of significance of the F test on whether spending per student affects composite score 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 director of cooperative education wanted to test the hypothesis that the population slope was equal to 0.The value of the test statistic 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 the lower and upper limits of the 95% confidence interval estimate for the mean change in revenue as a result of a one thousand increase in the number of downloads?

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 for predicting GPA using ACT scores based a data set of 8 randomly chosen students from a Big-Ten university. -Referring to Table 13-8,the value of the measured test statistic to test whether there is any linear relationship between GPA and ACT is

If the correlation coefficient (r)= 1.00,then

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,it is inappropriate to compute the Durbin-Watson statistic and test for autocorrelation in this case.

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,construct a 95% confidence interval for the change in mean weekly sales when the number of customers who make purchases increases by one.

TABLE 13-13 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. -Referring to Table 13-13,the p-value of the measured F-test statistic to test whether spending per student affects composite score is ________.