Academic Integrity: tutoring, explanations, and feedback — we don’t complete graded work or submit on a student’s behalf.

recent 10-year study conducted by a research team at the Great Falls Medical Sch

ID: 3178962 • Letter: R

Question

recent 10-year study conducted by a research team at the Great Falls Medical School was conducted to assess how age, systolic blood pressure, and smoking relate to the risk of strokes. Assume that the following data are from a portion of this study. Risk is interpreted as the probability (times 100) that the patient will have a stroke over the next 10-year period. For the smoking variable, define a dummy variable with 1 indicating a smoker and 0 indicating a nonsmoker.

1. Interpret the regression constant and regression coefficient. Forecast a value for the dependent variable,

2. Test the overall significant of the regression model and interpret the coefficient of determination.

3. Are there any indications of multicollinearity.

Risk 13 28 31 37 15 36 15 48 15 Age 58 86 59 78 67 Systolic Blood Pressure 163 196 189 120 135 98 173 209 1990 166 125 207 Smoker Yes Yes Yes Yes

Explanation / Answer

Result:

recent 10-year study conducted by a research team at the Great Falls Medical School was conducted to assess how age, systolic blood pressure, and smoking relate to the risk of strokes. Assume that the following data are from a portion of this study. Risk is interpreted as the probability (times 100) that the patient will have a stroke over the next 10-year period. For the smoking variable, define a dummy variable with 1 indicating a smoker and 0 indicating a nonsmoker.

1. Interpret the regression constant and regression coefficient. Forecast a value for the dependent variable,

Regression line = -91.7595 + 1.0767*age + 0.2518*SBP + 8.7399 *smoker

Regression coefficient for age =1.0767. When age increases by 1, ,risk increases by 1.0767.

Regression coefficient for SBP = 0.2518 . When SBP increases by 1, ,risk increases by 0.2518.

Regression coefficient for smoker = 8.7399 .. When the person is smoker, ,risk increases by 8.7399 .

Regression constant is -91.7595 , there is no meaning in interpreting the constant in this case.

2. Test the overall significant of the regression model and interpret the coefficient of determination.

Calculated F=36.82, P=0.000 which is < 0.05 level.

The regression model is significant.

R square =0.873.

87.3% variation is Risk is explained by the model.

3. Are there any indications of multicollinearity.

Correlation Matrix

Age

SBP

smoker

Age

1.000

SBP

-.309

1.000

smoker

.411

.167

1.000

20

sample size

± .444

critical value .05 (two-tail)

± .561

critical value .01 (two-tail)

The correlation between independent variables are not high. There are no indications of multicollinearity

Regression Analysis

0.873

Adjusted R²

0.850

n

20

R

0.935

k

3

Std. Error

5.757

Dep. Var.

Risk

ANOVA table

Source

SS

df

MS

F

p-value

Regression

3,660.7396

3  

1,220.2465

36.82

2.06E-07

Residual

530.2104

16  

33.1382

Total

4,190.9500

19  

Regression output

confidence interval

variables

coefficients

std. error

   t (df=16)

p-value

95% lower

95% upper

Intercept

-91.7595

15.2228

-6.028

1.76E-05

-124.0303

-59.4887

Age

1.0767

0.1660

6.488

7.49E-06

0.7249

1.4286

SBP

0.2518

0.0452

5.568

4.24E-05

0.1559

0.3477

smoker

8.7399

3.0008

2.912

.0102

2.3784

15.1013

Correlation Matrix

Age

SBP

smoker

Age

1.000

SBP

-.309

1.000

smoker

.411

.167

1.000

20

sample size

± .444

critical value .05 (two-tail)

± .561

critical value .01 (two-tail)