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Correlation and Simple Linear Regression (Problems With Solutions)

The document contains 6 problems related to correlation, regression, and hypothesis testing involving bivariate data. The problems involve calculating correlation coefficients, determining if linear relationships exist between variables, estimating regression lines, testing hypotheses about slope and intercept values, and constructing analysis of variance tables. Confidence and prediction intervals are also computed for some problems.

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Correlation and Simple Linear Regression (Problems With Solutions)

The document contains 6 problems related to correlation, regression, and hypothesis testing involving bivariate data. The problems involve calculating correlation coefficients, determining if linear relationships exist between variables, estimating regression lines, testing hypotheses about slope and intercept values, and constructing analysis of variance tables. Confidence and prediction intervals are also computed for some problems.

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Correlationandregressionproblems

1. ThefollowingdatarepresenttheyearsofexperienceXandsalaryY(inthousanddollars)ofarandom
sampleofprofessionalengineers(n=27)
X 1 2 2
Y 25 28 37

13
52

14
66

18
53

3 3 4 4 6 6 6
31 40 36 43 40 43 51

18
70

20
70

21
60

22
61

22
71

7 7
42 55

25
58

9
41

9
51

9
60

12
50

12
64

25
74

a. Findthecoefficientofcorrelationr.
b. Isitsufficientsampleevidencetoindicatethatthereislinearcorrelationbetweentheyearsofexperienceand
salary?
c. Testthehypothesisthat = 0.6 againstthealternative > 0.6 .Use = 0.01

2. Achemicalengineerisstudyingtheeffectoftemperatureontheyieldofacertainproductinchemicalprocess.
Theprocessisrun10timesandthefollowingdataisobservedforthetemperatureofeachprocessXand
correspondingyieldY.
TemperatureX(in C ) 95 110 118 124 145 140 185 190 205 222
Yield(inkgs)
108 126 102 121 118 155 158 178 159 184

Thefollowinginformationisavailable:

x = 1534 , x

= 252, 684 , y = 1409 , y 2 = 206, 319

xy = 226,463
a. Findthecoefficientofcorrelationr.
b. Isitsufficientsampleevidencetoindicatethatthereislinearcorrelationbetweentemperatureandyieldof
chemicalproduct?
c. Testthehypothesisthat = 0.8 againstthealternative 0.8 .Use = 0.05


3. Inthefollowingdata,XrepresentsthenumberofyearsofformaleducationandYrepresentsthesalaryin
thousandsofdollarsofarandomsampleofadultmales.
X
13
17
9
18
16
18
13
16
Y
21.6
25.8
15.9
48.3
38.2
56.4
28.4
43.3

a. Plotthescatterdiagram.
b. Computethecoefficientofcorrelationandtestthehypothesis H 0 : = 0 against H1 : 0 .
c. Findthecoefficientsoftheleastsquareslineandwritetheequationforestimatedregressionline.
d. Computemeansquareerror.
e. Finda95%confidenceintervalfor 1 and 0 .
f.

Testthehypothesisthat 0 = 0 againstthealternative 0 0 .

g. Testthehypothesisthat 1 = 0 againstthealternative 1 0 .
h. Estimatethetruemeanresponse Y | x tox=16yearsofeducation.
i. PredictthesalaryYcorrespondingto16yearsofeducation.
j. Findthecoefficientofdeterminationandexplainitsmeaning.
k. ConstructANOVAtableforregression.

4. Thetablebelowdisplaysthemathematicsachievementtestscoresforarandomsampleofn=10students,
selectedfromthepopulationof12thgraders,togetherwiththeirfinalcalculusgrades.

Mathachievement
39
43
21
64
57
47
28
75
34
52
Testscore
Finalcalculusgrade
65
78
52
82
92
89
73
98
56
75

a. Findthecoefficientsoftheleastsquareslineandwritetheequationforestimatedregressionline.
b. B.Determinewhetherthereissignificantrelationshipbetweenthecalculusgradesandtestscores.
Use = 0.05
c. Finda95%confidenceintervalfortheslopeofregressionline.
d. Estimatetheaveragecalculusgradeforthestudentswhoseachievementscoreis50witha95%CI.
e. Astudenttooktheachievementtest,buthasnotyettakenthecalculustest.Predictthecalculusgradefor
thisstudentwitha95%predictioninterval.
f. Finda95%confidenceintervalfortheinterceptofregressionline.
g. Calculatethecoefficientofdeterminationandexplainitsmeaning.
h. ConstructANOVAtableforregression.

5. Youaregivendatasetwith6pairsofxvaluesandyvalues.Weassumethatxisindependentvariableandyis
dependentvariable.
x
2
1
0
1
2
y
1
1
3
5
5

a. Findtheleastsquareslineforthedata.
b. Dothedatapresentsufficientevidencetoindicatethatyandxarelinearlyrelated?
c. ConstructtheeANOVAtableforlinearregressionandusetocalculateF=

MSR
.Verifythatthesquareoftest
MSE

statisticusedinpartb.coincideswithcriticalvalueforFat = 0.05 .
d. Find90%confidenceintervalfortheslopeoftheline.
e. Estimatetheaveragevalueofywhenx=1,using90%confidenceinterval.
f. Finda90%predictionintervalforfuturevalueofywhenx=1.

6. Thedata,togetherwithaportionofMinitabprintout,isgivenbelow.CertaininformationinMinitabprintoutis
missed.
x
1
2
3
4
5
6
y
5.6
4.6
4.5
3.7
3.2
3.7

a. Findtheleastsquareslineforthedata.
b. FillinthemissingentriesintheMINITABanalysisofvariancetable.
c. Dothedatapresentsufficientevidencetoindicatethatyandxarelinearlyrelated?
UsetheinformationintheMINITABprintouttoanswerthisquestionatthe1%levelofsignificance.
d. Findthecoefficientofdetermination.
e. Find90%confidenceintervalfortheslopeoftheline.
f. Estimatetheaveragevalueofywhenx=2,using90%confidenceinterval.
g. Finda95%predictionintervalforthefuturevalueofywhenx=2.

PredictorCoefSt.devtP
Constant6.00000.175934.100.000
X0.557140.0451812.330.000
S=0.1890Rsq=97.4%
Analysisofvariance
SourceDFSSMS

Regression**5.4221
Residualerror*0.1429*
Total*5.5750

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