Instruction 13 ANOVA Note: Adj R Square = Adjusted R Square; Std

question 146

Multiple Choice

Instruction 13.30
A real estate builder wishes to determine how house size (House) is influenced by family income (Income) , family size (Size) and education of the head of household (School) . House size is measured in hundreds of square metres, income is measured in thousands of dollars and education is in years. The builder randomly selected 50 families and ran the multiple regression. Microsoft Excel output is provided below:
OUTPUT
SUMMARY
Regression Statistics
$\begin{array} { l l } \text { Multiple R } & 0.865 \\ \text { R Square } & 0.748 \\ \text { Adj. R Square } & 0.726 \\ \text { Std. Error } & 5.195 \\ \text { Observations } & 50 \end{array}$

ANOVA
$\begin{array} { l l l l l l } & d f & \text { SS } & \text { MS } & F & \text { Signiff } \\ \text { Regression } & & 3605.7736 & 901.4434 & & 0.0001 \\ \text { Residual } & & 1214.2264 & 26.9828 & & \\ \text { Total } & 49 & 4820.0000 & & & \\ & & & & & \\ & \text { Coeff } & \text { StdError } & t \text { Stat } & p \text { value } & \\ \text { Intercept } & - 1.6335 & 5.8078 & - 0.281 & 0.7798 & \\ \text { Income } & 0.4485 & 0.1137 & 3.9545 & 0.0003 & \\ \text { Size } & 4.2615 & 0.8062 & 5.286 & 0.0001 & \\ \text { School } & - 0.6517 & 0.4319 & - 1.509 & 0.1383 & \end{array}$ Note: Adj. R Square = Adjusted R Square; Std. Error = Standard Error
-Referring to Instruction 13.30,suppose the builder wants to test whether the coefficient on Income is significantly different from 0.What is the value of the relevant t-statistic?

• A) 3.945
• B) 5.286
• C) -1.509
• D) 5.195

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