Practice Midterm Exam W4315 Fall 2011

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1. Consider a regression where the explanatory variable is time:

tot tY 1 for t=1,.n

where the i are uncorrelated with E(i)=0 and 2(i)=

2.

(a) Compute the least squares estimate of 0 and 1. (b) Show that the estimate is unbiased. (c) Compute the variance of the estimate.

2. Show that in the simple linear regression model, the relationship between the F-statistic and R2 is given by

2

2

1

)2(

R

RnF

3. Show that the matrix (1/n)J, where J is the unit matrix, is idempotent.

4. Consider the multiple regression model:

iiii XXY 2211 for i=1,.n

where the i are uncorrelated with E(i)=0 and 2(i)=

2.

Derive the least squares estimators of 1 and 2.

5. The Tri-City Office Equipment Corporation sells an imported copier on a franchise basis and performs preventive maintenance and repair service on this copier. Data was collected from 45 recent calls to perform routine preventive maintenance service; for each call, X is the number of copiers serviced and Y is the total number of minutes spent by the service person.

A simple linear regression model is fit and the output is shown below:

> results = lm(Time ~ Copiers) > results Call: lm(formula = Time ~ Copiers) Coefficients: (Intercept) Copiers -0.5802 15.0352 > summary(results) Call: lm(formula = Time ~ Copiers) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -22.7723 -3.7371 0.3334 6.3334 15.4039 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) -0.5802 2.8039 -0.207 0.837 Copiers 15.0352 0.4831 31.123