Chapter 12: Q1E (page 722)
Question: Write a first-order model relating to
- Two quantitative independent variables.
- Four quantitative independent variables.
- Five quantitative independent variables.
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Chapter 12: Q1E (page 722)
Question: Write a first-order model relating to
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The Minitab printout below was obtained from fitting the modelto n = 15 data points.
a) What is the prediction equation?
b) Give an estimate of the slope of the line relating y to x1 when x2 =10 .
c) Plot the prediction equation for the case when x2 =1 . Do this twice more on the same graph for the cases when x2 =3 and x2 =5 .
d) Explain what it means to say that x1and x2interact. Explain why your graph of part c suggests that x1and x2interact.
e) Specify the null and alternative hypotheses you would use to test whetherx1andx2interact.
f)Conduct the hypothesis test of part e using .

Suppose you used Minitab to fit the model
to n = 15 data points and obtained the printout shown below.
What is the least squares prediction equation?
Find R2and interpret its value.
Is there sufficient evidence to indicate that the model is useful for predicting y? Conduct an F-test using α = .05.
Test the null hypothesis H0: β1= 0 against the alternative hypothesis Ha: β1≠ 0. Test using α = .05. Draw the appropriate conclusions.
Find the standard deviation of the regression model and interpret it.
Question: Revenues of popular movies. The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) monitors the gross revenues for all major motion pictures. The table on the next page gives both the domestic (United States and Canada) and international gross revenues for a sample of 25 popular movies.

Can money spent on gifts buy love? Refer to the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 45, 2009) study of whether buying gifts truly buys love, Exercise 9.9 (p. 529). Recall those study participants were randomly assigned to play the role of gift-giver or gift-receiver. Gift-receivers were asked to provide the level of appreciation (measured on a 7-point scale where 1 = “not at all” and 7 = “to a great extent”) they had for the last birthday gift they received from a loved one. Gift-givers were asked to recall the last birthday gift they gave to a loved one and to provide the level of appreciation the loved one had for the gift.
Personality traits and job performance. When attempting to predict job performance using personality traits, researchers typically assume that the relationship is linear. A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology (Jan. 2011) investigated a curvilinear relationship between job task performance and a specific personality trait—conscientiousness. Using data collected for 602 employees of a large public organization, task performance was measured on a 30-point scale (where higher scores indicate better performance) and conscientiousness was measured on a scale of -3 to +3 (where higher scores indicate a higher level of conscientiousness).
a. The coefficient of correlation relating task performance score to conscientiousness score was reported as r = 0.18. Explain why the researchers should not use this statistic to investigate the curvilinear relationship between task performance and conscientiousness.
b. Give the equation of a curvilinear (quadratic) model relating task performance score (y) to conscientiousness score (x).
c. The researchers theorized that task performance increases as level of conscientiousness increases, but at a decreasing rate. Draw a sketch of this relationship.
d. If the theory in part c is supported, what is the expected sign ofin the model, part b?
e. The researchers reportedwith an associated p-value of less than 0.05. Use this information to test the researchers’ theory at
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