Exam 11: Simple Regression
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You are interested in exploring the relationship between the income of professors (measured in thousands of dollars)and the number of years they have been employed by the university.You collect the following data from eight professors.
-Use a computer to run the simple linear regression analysis of income on length of employment.

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If the coefficient of determination is 0.64,the correlation coefficient must be 0.80.
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A professor of statistics is interested in studying the relationship between the number of hours graduate students spent studying for his comprehensive final exam and the exam score.The results of the regression analysis of hours studied on exam scores are presented below.
-Which of the following statements must be true,if the regression sum of squares (SSR)is 83.6?

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The management of a local hotel is interested in determining the optimal staffing of the dining room.They believe that the number of overnight guests may help in determining the number of dinners to be served on a particular evening.They collected some data and ran a linear regression.The equation of the regression line is given by:
Number of dinners served = 120 + 0.60 Number of overnight guests.
Interpret these results for the hotel management.
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Which of the following will tend to make it more likely to reject H0 : β1 = 0?
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Nondiversifiable risk is that risk associated with specific firms and industries and includes labor conflicts,new competition,consumer market changes,and many other factors.
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A t-test is used to test the significance of the coefficient of correlation.
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A professor of statistics is interested in studying the relationship between the number of hours graduate students spent studying for his comprehensive final exam and the exam score.The results of the regression analysis of hours studied on exam scores are presented below.
-If the least squares regression line
= -2.88 + 1.77x and the coefficient of determination is 0.81,the coefficient of correlation is:


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Consider a random sample of 25 observations of two variables x and y.The following summary statistics are available:
= 43.2,
= 195.6,
= 1357.2,
= 1253.4,and
= 4843.6.
-Which of the following is the slope of the sample regression line?





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Given a simple regression analysis,suppose that we have obtained the fitted regression model:
i = 6 + 8xi and also the following statistics: se = 3.20,
= 8,n = 42,and
-A scatter diagram includes the data points (x = 2,y = 5),(x = 4,y = 12),(x = 6,y = 20),(x = 8,y = 28),and (x = 10,y = 30).Two regression lines are proposed: (1)
= -0.6 + 3x,and (2)
= -1 + 5x.Using the least squares criterion,which of these regression lines is the better fit to the data? Why?





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A sample of 8 households was asked about their monthly income (x)and the number of hours they spend connected to the internet each month (y).The data yield the following statistics:
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,
-What is the standard deviation of the number of hours households spend connected to the internet each month?





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The data below are for the number of unemployed persons (in millions)and the federal unemployment insurance payments (in billions of dollars)for the years 1978-1985.Some economists state that these two variables are positively related.
-Construct 95% confidence interval for the slope of the population regression line.


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The vertical spread of the data points about the regression line is measured by the:
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A college administers for all its courses a student evaluation questionnaire.For a random sample 12 courses the accompanying table shows both the average student ratings of the instructor (on a scale from 1 to 5),and the average expected grades of the students (on a scale from 0 to 4).
-Calculate the sample correlation coefficient between instructor ratings and expected grades.

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The data below are for the number of unemployed persons (in millions)and the federal unemployment insurance payments (in billions of dollars)for the years 1978-1985.Some economists state that these two variables are positively related.
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A professor of statistics is interested in studying the relationship between the number of hours graduate students spent studying for his comprehensive final exam and the exam score.The results of the regression analysis of hours studied on exam scores are presented below.
-The value of the coefficient of determination is:

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