TABLE 14-16
the Superintendent of a School District Wanted to Predict

question 66

True/False

TABLE 14-16
The superintendent of a school district wanted to predict the percentage of students passing a sixth-grade proficiency test. She
obtained the data on percentage of students passing the proficiency test (% Passing), daily average of the percentage of
students attending class (% Attendance), average teacher salary in dollars (Salaries), and instructional spending per pupil in
dollars (Spending) of 47 schools in the state.
Following is the multiple regression output with Y = % Passing as the dependent variable, X1 = % Attendance, X2 = Salaries and
X3 = Spending:
$\begin{array}{lr}\hline\text {Regression Statistics } \\\hline \text {Multiple R }& 0.7930 \\\text {R Square} & 0.6288 \\\text {Adjusted R Square} & 0.6029 \\\text {Standard Error }& 10.4570 \\\text {Observations }& 47 \\\hline\end{array}$


ANOVA
$\begin{array}{lccccc}\hline &\text { d f } &\text { SS }& \text { MS }& \text { F } & \text { Significance F} \\\hline \text { Regression }& 3 & 7965.08 & 2655.03 & 24.2802 & 2.3853 \mathrm{E}-09 \\\text { Residual} & 43 & 4702.02 & 109.35 & & \\\text { Total }& 46 & 12667.11 & & & \\\hline\end{array}$

$\begin{array}{lrrrrrr}\hline &\text { Coeffs} & \text { Stnd Err} &\text { t Stat} &\text { p -value }&\text { Lower 95\%} \text { Upper 95\%} \\\hline\text { Intercept }& -753.4225 & 101.1149 & -7.4511 & 2.88 \mathrm{E}-09 & -957.3401 & -549.5050 \\\%\text { Attend }& 8.5014 & 1.0771 & 7.8929 & 6.73 \mathrm{E}-10 & 6.3292 & 10.6735 \\\text { Salary} & 6.85 \mathrm{E}-07 & 0.0006 & 0.0011 & 0.9991 & -0.0013 & 0.0013 \\\text { Spending }& 0.0060 & 0.0046 & 1.2879 & 0.2047 & -0.0034 & 0.0153 \\\hline\end{array}$

-Referring to Table 14-16, there is sufficient evidence that instructional spending per pupil has an effect on percentage of students passing the proficiency test while holding constant the effect of all the other independent variables at a 5% level of significance.

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