Student's Final Grade

question 143

Essay

Student's Final Grade
A statistics professor investigated some of the factors that affect an individual student's final grade in her course.She proposed the multiple regression model ,where y is the final grade (out of 100 points),x₁ is the number of lectures skipped,x₂ is the number of late assignments,and x₃ is the midterm exam score (out of 100).The professor recorded the data for 50 randomly selected students.The computer output is shown below. THE REGRESSION EQUATION IS ​ ​ ​ S = 13.74 R−Sq = 30.0% ​ ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE ​ ​
-{Student's Final Grade Narrative} Does this data provide enough evidence to conclude at the 5% significance level that the final grade and the number of skipped lectures are linearly related?

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