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With the growth of internet service providers, a researcher decides to examine w

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Question

With the growth of internet service providers, a researcher decides to examine whether there is a correlation between cost of internet service per month (rounded to the nearest dollar) and degree of customer satisfaction (on a scale of 1 - 10 with a 1 being not at all satisfied and a 10 being extremely satisfied). The researcher only includes programs with comparable types of services. A sample of the data is provided below:

a) Find the equation of the fitted regression line.

c) Compute the correlation coefficient

d) What is the R2 for this model?

g) Perform the regression using SAS, and give the p-value to the test in part f ). Verify that the p-value agrees with your conclusion in part f ).

DOLLARS Satisfaction 11 6 18 8 17 10 15 4 9 9 5 6 12 3 19 5 22 2 25 10

Explanation / Answer

Solution:

Part a

First of all we have to find the regression equation for satisfaction. The formulas for the regression coefficients and calculation table are summarised below:

No.

Dollars (X)

Satisfaction (Y)

X^2

Y^2

X*Y

1

11

6

121

36

66

2

18

8

324

64

144

3

17

10

289

100

170

4

15

4

225

16

60

5

9

9

81

81

81

6

5

6

25

36

30

7

12

3

144

9

36

8

19

5

361

25

95

9

22

2

484

4

44

10

25

10

625

100

250

Total

153

63

2679

471

976

From above table, we have

X = 153

Y = 63

X^2 = 2679

Y^2 = 471

XY = 976

n = 10

Xbar = 153/10 = 15.3

Ybar = 63/10 = 6.3

b = (XY – n*Xbar*Ybar)/(X^2 – n*Xbar^2)

b = (976 – 10*15.3*6.3)/(2679 – 10*15.3^2)

b = 12.1/338.1

b = 0.035788228

a = Ybar – b*Xbar

a = 6.3 - 0.035788228*15.3

a = 5.752440112

Regression equation is given as below:

Y = a + b*X

Y = 5.752440112 + 0.035788228*X

Part b

Formula for standard deviation of the error is given as below:

S = sqrt[SSE/(n – k – 1)]

S = sqrt[73.67/(10 – 1 – 1)]

S = sqrt[73.67/8]

S = sqrt(9.20875)

S = 3.034592

Part c

Formula for correlation coefficient is given as below:

Correlation coefficient = r = [nxy - xy]/sqrt[(nx^2 – (x)^2)*(ny^2 – (y)^2)]

Correlation coefficient = r = [10*976 – 153*63]/sqrt[(10*2679 – 153^2)*(10*471 – 63^2)]

Correlation coefficient = r = 0.076445809

Part d

Formula for R^2 or coefficient of determination is given as below:

R^2 = r^2 * 0.076445809^2 = 0.076445809* 0.076445809 = 0.005843962

R^2 for this model is given as 0.58%.

Regression output for more reference is given as below:

Regression Statistics

Multiple R

0.076445809

R Square

0.005843962

Adjusted R Square

-0.118425543

Standard Error

3.034529668

Observations

10

ANOVA

df

SS

MS

F

P-value

Regression

1

0.43

0.433038

0.047027

0.83374863

Residual

8

73.67

9.20837

Total

9

74.1

Coefficients

std error

t Stat

P-value

Lower 95%

Upper 95%

Intercept

5.752440106

2.701190162

2.129595

0.065835

-0.47651557

11.98139578

Dollars (X)

0.035788228

0.165032243

0.216856

0.833749

-0.34477681

0.416353263

No.

Dollars (X)

Satisfaction (Y)

X^2

Y^2

X*Y

1

11

6

121

36

66

2

18

8

324

64

144

3

17

10

289

100

170

4

15

4

225

16

60

5

9

9

81

81

81

6

5

6

25

36

30

7

12

3

144

9

36

8

19

5

361

25

95

9

22

2

484

4

44

10

25

10

625

100

250

Total

153

63

2679

471

976

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