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1) Note: This is a continuation of problem 4 on HW7. Salsberry Realty sells home

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Question

1) Note: This is a continuation of problem 4 on HW7. Salsberry Realty sells homes along the east coast of the United States. One of the questions most frequently asked by prospective buyers is: If we purchase this home, how much can we expect to pay to heat it during the winter? The research department at Salsberry has been asked to develop some guidelines regarding heating costs for single-family homes. They put together a dataset for 20 homes that appears in the Home Heating worksheet of the HW8 data workbook on Moodle. The dataset contains the following variables: Cost – Cost to heat the home last January, Temperature – The mean daily outside temperature for the home last January, and Insulation – the number of inches of insulation in the attic.

a) Use Excel to fit the multiple regression model using Cost as the Y variable and the other two variables as the X or independent variables. Is the model statistically significant at = 0.05?

b) Provide a point prediction for a house with 3 inches of insulation in the attic and an average January temperature of 20 degrees.

c) Provide an approximate 90% prediction interval for a house with 3 inches of insulation in the attic and an average January temperature of 20 degrees.

Cost Temperature Insulation 250 35 3 360 29 4 165 36 7 43 60 6 92 65 5 200 30 5 355 10 6 290 7 10 230 21 9 120 55 2 73 54 12 205 48 5 400 20 5 320 39 4 72 60 8 272 20 5 94 58 7 190 40 8 235 27 9 139 30 7

Explanation / Answer

Result:

1) Note: This is a continuation of problem 4 on HW7. Salsberry Realty sells homes along the east coast of the United States. One of the questions most frequently asked by prospective buyers is: If we purchase this home, how much can we expect to pay to heat it during the winter? The research department at Salsberry has been asked to develop some guidelines regarding heating costs for single-family homes. They put together a dataset for 20 homes that appears in the Home Heating worksheet of the HW8 data workbook on Moodle. The dataset contains the following variables: Cost – Cost to heat the home last January, Temperature – The mean daily outside temperature for the home last January, and Insulation – the number of inches of insulation in the attic.

a) Use Excel to fit the multiple regression model using Cost as the Y variable and the other two variables as the X or independent variables. Is the model statistically significant at a = 0.05?

Regression Analysis

0.776

Adjusted R²

0.749

n

20

R

0.881

k

2

Std. Error

52.982

Dep. Var.

Cost

ANOVA table

Source

SS

df

MS

F

p-value

Regression

165,194.5213

2  

82,597.2607

29.42

3.01E-06

Residual

47,721.2287

17  

2,807.1311

Total

212,915.7500

19  

Regression output

confidence interval

variables

coefficients

std. error

   t (df=17)

p-value

90% lower

90% upper

Intercept

490.2859

44.4098

11.040

3.56E-09

413.0303

567.5416

Temperature

-5.1499

0.7019

-7.337

1.16E-06

-6.3709

-3.9289

Insulation

-14.7181

4.9339

-2.983

.0084

-23.3012

-6.1351

The regression line

Cost = 490.2859 -5.1499* Temperature --14.7181*Insulation

Calculated F=29.42, P=0.0000 which is < 0.05 level of significance.

The model statistically significant.

b) Provide a point prediction for a house with 3 inches of insulation in the attic and an average January temperature of 20 degrees.

Predicted values for: Cost

90% Confidence Interval

90% Prediction Interval

Temperature

Insulation

Predicted

lower

upper

lower

upper

Leverage

20

3

343.134

300.508

385.760

241.586

444.682

0.214

Predicted cost = 343.13

c) Provide an approximate 90% prediction interval for a house with 3 inches of insulation in the attic and an average January temperature of 20 degrees.

90% prediction interval = (241.59, 444.68)

Regression Analysis

0.776

Adjusted R²

0.749

n

20

R

0.881

k

2

Std. Error

52.982

Dep. Var.

Cost

ANOVA table

Source

SS

df

MS

F

p-value

Regression

165,194.5213

2  

82,597.2607

29.42

3.01E-06

Residual

47,721.2287

17  

2,807.1311

Total

212,915.7500

19  

Regression output

confidence interval

variables

coefficients

std. error

   t (df=17)

p-value

90% lower

90% upper

Intercept

490.2859

44.4098

11.040

3.56E-09

413.0303

567.5416

Temperature

-5.1499

0.7019

-7.337

1.16E-06

-6.3709

-3.9289

Insulation

-14.7181

4.9339

-2.983

.0084

-23.3012

-6.1351