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The document contains instructions for a final exam on environmentrics. It includes 5 questions covering topics like environmental sampling design, analyzing pollutants in different environmental matrices, characterizing distributions, performing simple and multiple linear regression analyses, and interpreting their results. Students are asked to submit their responses by email within 20 minutes of the exam completion time.

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The document contains instructions for a final exam on environmentrics. It includes 5 questions covering topics like environmental sampling design, analyzing pollutants in different environmental matrices, characterizing distributions, performing simple and multiple linear regression analyses, and interpreting their results. Students are asked to submit their responses by email within 20 minutes of the exam completion time.

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Final Exam of Environmentrics, EvnEng 7051

Academic Year: 2019/202; Semester: II; Year: II; Program: Envt Eng. MSc

Time allowed: 1:30 (2:00 to 3:30 in the afternoon of 21/10/2020)

Attach to [email protected]/ telegram 0955436815 within 20 minutes.


Any attachment after 3:50 shall be rejected. The scanned answers must be
visible and clear.

The Exam has 2 pages containing 5 questions!!!

Directions: Carefully read the instructions

 Write your ID Number only on each page of the answer sheet.


 Do not write your Name
 Attempt all the questions
 Provide you answers with readable handwriting.
 If copying from each other is identified, all answers shall be
automatically disqualified/rejected.

1. A complete environmental sampling design consists of three key points for


the samples to be representative samples.
a. List these key points
b. Describe these points using an example of your own.
2. The main environmental matrices are soil, water and air. These matrices have a
heterogenic chemical composition, which promotes a large variation in their
properties, functionality, and interaction with pollutants. Despite the availability
of advanced techniques as separation and detection, sampling and sample
preparation are steps that require attention for the analyses of pollutants in
environmental matrices. The right choice of both methods will lead to the
efficiency of the analytical approach applied. Based on these facts, briefly
describe the general considerations of sample collection from these
environmental matrices. Elaborate with example of collecting samples of
pollutants (chemicals) from the matrices.
3. Characterize a unimodal distribution in terms of the area under the curve,
mode, median and mean when it is:
a. normal distribution;
b. non normal distribution with Negative skewness; and
c. non normal distribution with positive skewness.
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4. The analysis results of a response variable and a predicator variable using a


simple linear regression of Model A are: SS Error = 132; DF Error = 2; SS Total
= 216; and MS Total compute (show your steps!)
a. MSE (MS Error)
b. R2 and what percent of variation is contributed by the SLR model?
c. R2(adj) and what percent of variation is contributed by the SLR model?
d. Suppose the R2 of SLR model B is 0.78 for the same dataset, which model
better describes the data, Model A or Model B? Why?

5. An Environmental Engineer wants to understand how several predictors, P1-P4


are associated with a response variable, R. The engineer examines 32
environmental matrices at different predicators of P1, P2, P3, and P4. The
response variable, R, measured values are recorded.
The engineer performed MLR analysis to fit the predicators using a statistical
package and obtained the following analysis results

Regression analysis: R versus P1, P2, P3 and P4


Coefficients

Term Coef SE Coef T-Value P-Value VIF


Constant -0.756 0.736 -1.03 0.314
P1 0.1545 0.0633 2.44 0.022 1.03
P2 0.2171 0.0316 6.86 0.000 1.02
P3 0.01081 0.00462 2.34 0.027 1.04
P4 0.0946 0.0546 1.73 0.094 1.00

Based on the above analysis results:

a. Write the MLR equation


b. Describe the contribution of each of the predicators with
relation to the response variable, R.
c. Which of predicators
i. have significant effect on the response variable, R? Justify
your answer.
ii. have no significant effect on the response variable R?
Why?
iii. Write the MLR fit for those predicators that have
significant effect on R.
d. What is the importance of performing MLR analysis?

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