Question: An expert witness in a case of alleged racial discrimination in a state university school of nursing introduced a regression of the determinants of Salary of each professor for each year during an 8-year period (

n = 423) with the following results, with dependent variable Year (year in which the salary was observed) and predictors YearHire (year when the individual was hired), Race (1 if individual is black, 0 otherwise), and

Rank (1 if individual is an assistant professor, 0 otherwise). Interpret these results.

Variable Coefficient t p

Intercept

− 3,816,521 − 29.4 .000

Year

1,948 29.8 .000

YearHire

− 826 − 5.5 .000

Race

− 2,093 − 4.3 .000

Rank

− 6,438 − 22.3 .000