[Solution] You are a teacher for a statistic class, and you have measured the number of hours student are actively participating in your course’s statistical


Question: You are a teacher for a statistic class, and you have measured the number of hours student are actively participating in your course’s statistical online tutorial. You have also recorded the final exam scores for these students. The maximum score on the test is 250 points. The table below shows the number o tutorial hours and the final grade scores each of the 24 students.

Submit work in an Excel File

  1. Using Excel or PHStats, conduct a regression analysis of these data and report the following:
  1. Correlation coefficient
  2. R 2 for the two data variables. (What does this mean about the regression line?)

ii. Write the equation of the regression line.

iii. Describe what your results mean in plain English. How reliable predictor is tutorial hours and final exam score?

iv. What does the residual plot tell you?

v. Calculate the expected final grade score for a student who uses the tutorial for 100 hours and for 200 hours.

vi. From your calculated results for final exam scores for #5 above, what are your comments about the benefits of interpolations and extrapolations of the data?

Table 7

Student Tutorial Activity & Final Exam Results

Student Number of Tutorial Hours Final Exam Score Student Number of Tutorial Hours Final Exam Score
1 56 166 13 88 179
2 75 159 14 79 182
3 93 201 15 127 212
4 109 210 16 119 197
5 128 206 17 122 215
6 135 227 18 98 193
7 69 177 19 92 188
8 143 228 20 107 199
9 112 219 21 90 194
10 98 203 22 88 189
11 77 180 23 116 221
12 103 199 24 134 239

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