Exam 12: Simple Linear Regression
Exam 1: Defining and Collecting Data145 Questions
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Exam 11: Analysis of Variance148 Questions
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Instruction 12.35
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:
MultipleR 0.8691 R Square 0.7554 Adjusted R Square 0.7467 Standard Error 44.4765 Observations 30.0000
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
Coefficients Standard Error t Stat p -value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept -95.0614 26.9183 -3.5315 0.0015 -150.2009 -39.9218 Download 3.7297 0.4011 9.2992 0.0000 2.9082 4.5513
-Referring to Instruction 12.35,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?


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Instruction 12.12
The director of cooperative education at a university wants to examine the effect of cooperative education job experience on marketability in the workplace. She takes a random sample of four students. For these four, 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 Instruction 12.12,the coefficient of correlation is ____________.
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Instruction 12.2
A chocolate 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 six country towns and cities and offers the chocolate bar at different prices. Using chocolate bar sales as the dependent variable, the company will conduct a simple linear regression on the data below:
-Referring to Instruction 12.2,what is the estimated slope parameter for the chocolate bar price and sales data?
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Instruction 12.39
The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new customers a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new customers 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 Sles 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 Instruction 12.39,suppose the managers of the brokerage firm want to obtain a 99% prediction interval for the sales made by a broker who has brought into the firm 18 new customers.The prediction interval is from __________ to __________.
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Instruction 12.29
The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new customers a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new customers 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 Instruction 12.29,the managers of the brokerage firm wanted to test the hypothesis that the number of new customers brought in had a positive impact on the amount of sales generated.At a level of significance of 0.01,the decision that should be made implies that the number of new customers brought in____________ (had or did not have)a positive impact on the amount of sales generated.
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onfident that the mean amount of time needed to record one additional loan application is somewhere
MultipleR 0.9447 R Square 0.8924 Adjusted R Square 0.8886 Standard Error 0.3342 Observations 30
df S5 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 tStat p-value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept 0.4024 0.1236 3.2559 0.0030 0.1492 0.6555 Applications Recorded 0.0126 0.0008 15.2388 4.3946- 15 0.0109 0.0143
-Referring to Instruction 12.36,the degrees of freedom for the F test on whether the number of loan applications recorded affects the amount of time are

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Instruction 12.38
The director of cooperative education at a university wants to examine the effect of cooperative education job experience on marketability in the workplace. She takes a random sample of four students. For these four, 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 Oifer 1 1 4 2 2 6 3 1 3 4 0 1
-Referring to Instruction 12.38,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.
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The Durbin-Watson D statistic is used to check the assumption of normality.
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Instruction 12.11
The manager of the purchasing department of a large savings 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:
MultipleR 0.9447 R Square 0.8924 Adjusted R Square 0.8886 Standard Error 0.3342 Observations 30
df S5 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 tStat p-value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept 0.4024 0.1236 3.2559 0.0030 0.1492 0.6555 Applications Recorded 0.0126 0.0008 15.2388 4.3946- 15 0.0109 0.0143
Note: 4.3946E-15 is 4.3946 × 10-15.
-Referring to Instruction 12.11,the estimated mean amount of time it takes to record one additional loan application is


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The sample correlation coefficient between X and Y is 0.375.It has been found out that the p-value is 0.256 when testing H0: ρ = 0 against the two-sided alternative H1: ρ ≠ 0.To test H0: ρ = 0 against the one-sided alternative H1: ρ < 0 at a significance level of 0.2,the p-value is
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Instruction 12.4
The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new customers a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new customers 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 Instruction 12.4,set up a scatter diagram.
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Instruction 12.4
The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new customers a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new customers 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 Instruction 12.4,the least squares estimate of the Y-intercept is ____________.
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onfident that the mean amount of time needed to record one additional loan application is somewhere
MultipleR 0.9447 R Square 0.8924 Adjusted R Square 0.8886 Standard Error 0.3342 Observations 30
df S5 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 tStat p-value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept 0.4024 0.1236 3.2559 0.0030 0.1492 0.6555 Applications Recorded 0.0126 0.0008 15.2388 4.3946- 15 0.0109 0.0143
-Referring to Instruction 12.36,the p-value of the measured F test statistic to test whether the number of loan applications record affects the amount of time is

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Instruction 12.29
The managers of a brokerage firm are interested in finding out if the number of new customers a broker brings into the firm affects the sales generated by the broker. They sample 12 brokers and determine the number of new customers 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 Instruction 12.29,the managers of the brokerage firm wanted to test the hypothesis that the number of new customers brought in had a positive impact on the amount of sales generated.At a level of significance of 0.01,the null hypothesis should be ____________ (accepted or rejected).
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To avoid the pitfalls of regression,you should start with a scatter plot to observe the possible relationship between X and Y.
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Instruction 12.10
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:
MultipleR 0.8691 R Square 0.7554 Adjusted R Square 0.7467 Standard Error 44.4765 Observations 30.0000
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
Coefficients Standard Error t Stat p -value Lower 95\% Upper 95\% Intercept -95.0614 26.9183 -3.5315 0.0015 -150.2009 -39.9218 Download 3.7297 0.4011 9.2992 0.0000 2.9082 4.5513
-Referring to Instruction 12.10,which of the following is the correct interpretation for the slope coefficient?


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Instruction 12.27
The director of cooperative education at a university wants to examine the effect of cooperative education job experience on marketability in the workplace. She takes a random sample of four students. For these four, 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 Instruction 12.27,the director of cooperative education wanted to test the hypothesis that the true slope was equal to 3.0.The p-value of the test is between____________ and ____________.
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If you wanted to find out if alcohol consumptions (measured in ml)and grade point average on a four-point scale are linearly related,you would perform a
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Instruction 12.3
The director of cooperative education at a university wants to examine the effect of cooperative education job experience on marketability in the workplace. She takes a random sample of four students. For these four, 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 Instruction 12.3,the total sum of squares (SST)is ____________.
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