(Continuation from Chapter 4) Sir Francis Galton, a Cousin of James

question 25

Essay

(continuation from Chapter 4) Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of James Darwin, examined the relationship between the height of children and their parents towards the end of the $19 ^ { \text {th } }$ century. It is from this study that the name "regression" originated. You decide to update his findings by collecting data from 110 college students, and estimate the following relationship:
$$\begin{aligned}\widehat { \text { Studenth } } = & 19.6 + 0.73 \times \text { Midparh, } R ^ { 2 } = 0.45 , S E R = 2.0 \\& ( 7.2 ) ( 0.10 )\end{aligned}$$ where Studenth is the height of students in inches, and Midparh is the average of
the parental heights.Values in parentheses are heteroskedasticity robust standard
errors.(Following Galton's methodology, both variables were adjusted so that the
average female height was equal to the average male height.)
(a)Test for the statistical significance of the slope coefficient.

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