The Following MINITAB Output Presents a Multiple Regression Equation $\hat { y } = b _ { 0 } + b _ { 1 } x _ { 1 } +$

question 117

Multiple Choice

The following MINITAB output presents a multiple regression equation $\hat { y } = b _ { 0 } + b _ { 1 } x _ { 1 } +$ $b _ { 2 } x _ { 2 } + b _ { 3 } x _ { 3 } + b _ { 4 } x _ { 4 }$
The regression equation is
$$\mathrm { Y } = 5.5079 + 1.6552 \mathrm { X } 1 - 1.1088 \mathrm { X } 2 + 1.3981 \mathrm { X } 3 - 1.2465 \mathrm { X } 4$$

$\begin{array}{lllll}\text { Predictor } & \text { Coef } & \text { SE Coef } & \text { T } & \text { P } \\\text { Constant } & 5.5079 & 0.7640 & 1.1002 & 0.314 \\\text { X1 } & 1.6552 & 0.7032 & 3.1929 & 0.002 \\\text { X2 } & -1.1088 & 0.6023 & -3.2310 & 0.005 \\\text { X3 } & 1.3981 & 0.8970 & 1.8137 & 0.087 \\\text { X4 } & -1.2465 & 0.8251 & -1.1433 & 0.354\end{array}$

$\mathrm{S}=2.2181 \quad \mathrm{R}-\mathrm{Sq}=41.6 \% \mathrm{R}-\mathrm{Sq}(\text { adj }) =35.0 \%$

$\begin{array}{l}\text { Analysis of Variance }\\\begin{array}{lcccrr}\text { Source } & \text { DF } & \text { SS } & \text { MS } & \text { F P } & \\\text { Regression } & 4 & 637.5 & 159.4 & 7.1480 & 0.003 \\\text { Residual Error } & 40 & 893.2 & 22.3 & & \\\text { Total } & 44 & 1530.7 & & & \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$

Let $\beta _ { 1 }$ be the coefficient $X _ { 1 }$ Test the hypothesis $H _ { 0 } : \beta _ { 1 } = 0$ versus $H _ { 1 } : \beta 1 \neq 0$ at the $\alpha = 0.05 \text { level. }$ What do you conclude?

• A) Do not reject H₀
• B) Reject H₀

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