Statistics For Business And Economics Plus Mystatlab With Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package (13th Edition)
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Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
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Chapter 12, Problem 12.159ACI
Yield strength of steel alloy. Industrial engineers at the University of Florida used regression modeling as a tool to reduce the time and cost associated with developing new metallic alloys (Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 13, 2005). To illustrate, the engineers built a regression model for the tensile yield strength (y) of a new steel alloy. The potentially important predictors of yield strength are listed in the accompanying table.
x1 = Carbon amount (% weight) |
x2 = Manganese amount (% weight) |
x3 = Chromium amount (% weight) |
x4 = Nickel amount (% weight) |
x5 = Molybdenum amount (% weight) |
x6 = Copper amount (% weight) |
x7 = Nitrogen amount (% weight) |
x8 = Vanadium amount (% weight) |
x9 = Plate thickness (millimeters) |
x10 = Solution treating (milliliters) |
x11 = Aging temperature (degrees, Celsius) |
- a. The engineers discovered that the variable Nickel (x4) was highly
correlated with the other potential independent variables. Consequently. Nickel was dropped from the model. Do you agree with this decision? Explain. - b. The engineers used stepwise regression on the remaining 10 potential independent variables in order to search for a parsimonious set of predictor variables. Do you agree with this decision? Explain.
- c. The stepwise regression selected the following independent variables: x1 = Carbon, x2 = Manganese, x3 = Chromium, x5 = Molybdenum, x6 = Copper, x8 = Vanadium, x9 = Plate thickness, x10 = Solution treating, and x11 = Aging temperature. All these variables were statistically significant in the step-wise model, with R2 = .94. Consequently, the engineers used the estimated stepwise model to predict yield strength. Do you agree with this decision? Explain.
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