A Research Project Was Conducted to Study the Effect of Smoking

question 62

Multiple Choice

A research project was conducted to study the effect of smoking and weight upon resting pulse rate.The response variable is coded as 1 when the pulse rate is low and 0 when it high.Smoking is also coding as 1 when smoking and 0 when not smoking.Shown below is the Minitab output from a logistic regression.

Based on the results, the null hypothesis that all of the predictor variables are insignificant with coefficients of 0, should __________________.

• A)not be rejected as the p-value is 7.574
• B)be rejected as the p-value is -46.82
• C)be rejected as the p-value is 0.023
• D)not be rejected as the p-value is 0.023
• E)not be rejected as there is insufficient information

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