For a sample of over 160 college students, the following variables were measured: Y = height X1 = mother’s height X2 = father’s height X3 = 1 if male, 0 if female The goal is to predict student’s height using the mother’s and father’s heights, and sex, where sex is categorized using the variable “male” = 1 if male, 0 if fe

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For a sample of over 160 college students, the following variables were measured:

Y = height

X1 = mother’s height

X2 = father’s height

X3 = 1 if male, 0 if female

The goal is to predict student’s height using the mother’s and father’s heights, and sex, where sex is categorized using the variable “male” = 1 if male, 0 if female.

Question 1

The regression model is  __________________________________________

Regress command results (remember that we now have n = 165 cases; we removed one outlier):

      Source |       SS       df       MS              Number of obs =     165

-------------+------------------------------           F(  3,   161) =  104.38

       Model |  1679.17741     3  559.725803           Prob > F      =  0.0000

    Residual |   863.31653   161  5.36221447           R-squared     =  0.6604

-------------+------------------------------                        Adj R-squared =  0.6541       

Total |     2542.49394   164  15.5030118               Root MSE      =  2.3156 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------      

height |      Coef.              Std. Err.       t    P>|t|     [95% Conf. Interval]

momheight | .2996154  .0687614    4.36   0.000     .1638247     .435406    

dadheight |  .412135  .0510733     8.07   0.000      .311275     .512995        

male  |       5.298218   .3637717     14.56    0.000      4.579839      6.016597

constant |   16.96746  4.658309       3.64    0.000       7.768196     26.16673

Question 2

3-a - Is the model useful and if so how did you determine it is useful? What measures did you use?

3-b - Which (if any) of the independent variables, at a confidence level of 95%, are useful in the model?

3-c – Would your answer to question 3-b change if you use a 90% confidence level.

3-d - Which factor (independent variable) is the best predictor? 

Question 3

The college has a policy that a student must be 5 ft 11 inches tall in order to try out for a particular sport.  Given my mother’s height is 5 ft 4 inches tall and my father was 6 ft tall will I be allowed to try out for the team.  You must show calculations. 

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