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(a) Find an equation of the least squares regression line. Please show all work.

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Question

(a) Find an equation of the least squares regression line. Please show all work.

(b) Based on the equation from part (a), what is the predicted value of y if x = 2? Show all work and justify your answer.

True or False.

1. (a) If the variance of a data set is zero, then all the observations in this data set are zero.

(b) If P(A) = 0.4 , P(B) = 0.5, and A and B are disjoint, then P(A AND B) = 0.9.

(c) Assume X follows a continuous distribution which is symmetric about 0. If , then .

(d) A 95% confidence interval is wider than a 90% confidence interval of the same parameter.

(e) In a right-tailed test, the value of the test statistic is 1.5. If we know the test statistic follows a Student’s t-distribution with P(T < 1.5) = 0.96, then we fail to reject the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance .

Please show all work work and give justification for #1. Please no handwritten work.

Explanation / Answer

Slope(b) = (NXY - (X)(Y)) / (NX2- (X)2)

b = (4 * 57 - 9*16) / (4*35 - 92)

b = 1.424

Intercept(a) = (Y - b(X)) / N

a = (16 - 1.424*9) / 4 = 0.797

Equation: Y = 1.424X + 0.797

b) X = 2

Y = 1.424*2 + 0.797 = 3.644

For X = 1; Y = 2

For X = 3, Y = 5

Hence for X = 2 Y has to be 2 < Y < 5

Y = 3.644 and hence is justified

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a) If the variance of a data set is zero, then all the observations in this data set are zero - TRUE

b) If P(A) = 0.4 , P(B) = 0.5, and A and B are disjoint, then P(A AND B) = 0.9 - FALSE

If two events are disjoint, then the probability of them both occurring at the same time is 0. Disjoint: P(A and B) = 0.

c) Assume X follows a continuous distribution which is symmetric about 0. If , then - standard normal distribution

d) A 95% confidence interval is wider than a 90% confidence interval of the same parameter. - FALSE

Since margin of error is high

e) In a right-tailed test, the value of the test statistic is 1.5. If we know the test statistic follows a Student’s t-distribution with P(T < 1.5) = 0.96, then we fail to reject the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance - FALSE

P(t > 1.5) = 1 - 0.96 = 0.04 which is less than alpha (0.05) - Reject the NULL

X Y X2 Y2 XY 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 4 2 3 5 9 25 15 5 8 25 64 40 Sum X = 9 Sum Y = 16 Sum X2 = 35 Sum Y2 = 94 Sum XY = 57