HOLMES INSTITUTE

FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

HI6007 Group Assignment
Due End of Week/Lecture 10
WORTH 30%
(Maximum 5 students in the group)

"This is an applied assignment, not a research assignment. You have to show that you
understand the principles and techniques taught in this course. Therefore you are
expected to show all your workings, and all problems must be completed in the format
taught in class, the lecture notes or prescribed text book. Any problems not done in the
prescribed format will not be marked, regardless of the ultimate correctness of the
answer."

Instructions:
 Your assignment must be submitted in WORD format only!
 When answering questions, wherever required, you should copy/cut and paste the
Excel output (e.g., plots, regression output etc) to show your working/output.
 Submit your assignment through Safe-Assign in the course website, under the
Assignments and due dates, Assignment Final Submission before the due date.
 You are required to keep an electronic copy of your submitted assignment to re-submit,
in case the original submission is failed and/or you are asked to resubmit.
 Please check your Holmes email prior to reporting your assignment mark regularly for
possible communications due to failure in your submission.

Important Notice:
All assignments submitted undergo plagiarism checking; if found to have cheated, all
involving submissions would receive a mark of zero for this assessment item.
 Please read below information carefully and respond all questions listed.

1. Many Holmes Institute instructors believe that students need to spend at least 2 hours
studying outside of class for every hour of lecture. They believe that the number of hours
students study to prepare for the exam affect students’ marks significantly. As opposed,
few of the lecturers believe that the number of preparation hours do not essentially affect
students’ marks while some other factors are to be considered. To study the relationship
between the preparation time spent by each student (in hours) for the exam and the
reported mark, a sample of 100 students were selected randomly from a large statistics
class. The data are stored in the file named “ASSIGNMENTDATA” in the course website.
Answer below 9 questions: (22
marks)

a. What type of survey method could be used? Explain your answer.

(1.5 mark)
b. What sampling method could be used to select the sample? Explain your answer.
(1.5 mark)
c. On the basis of given data, determine the dependent and independent variables we
should use, and why? Also, identify the data type(s) for each variable.
(2 marks)
d. What kind of issues we may face in collecting the data using this type of survey
method? List and explain two cases. (1 mark)
e. Using 8 classes and intervals of 20 - 30, 30 - 40, etc for both of the variables
selected in question 3, develop a distribution table including class intervals,
frequency, relative frequency and cumulative relative frequency for each variable.
Then, draw frequency histogram, relative frequency histogram and cumulative
relative frequency histogram for each variable. Also, Comment on the shape of
frequency histogram for each variable and provide reason(s) for your comment.
(5.5 marks)
f. Draw and use an appropriate scatter plot to investigate the relationship between
the two variables. Also, briefly explain the selection of each variable on the X and Y
axes and the reason? Finally, draw the fitting line for the plotted observations.
(2.5 marks)

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 g. Present the equation of the estimated fitting line (regression) in your answer to
Question f. Then, estimate the effect of an increase in the independent variable by
one unit on the dependent variable. (2.5 marks)
h. Prepare a numerical summary report about the data on the two variables by
including the mean, median, range, variance, standard deviation, smallest and
largest values, quartiles, interquartile range and the 30 th percentile for each
variable.
(3.5 marks)
i. Compute a numerical measurement which measures the strength and direction of
the linear relationship between the two variables. Also, interpret this value.
(2 marks)

2. To determine whether or not the height of sons is related to father’s height (x1) and
mother’s height (x2), data were gathered and part of the multiple regression excel output
is shown below. Fill the table and answer the following questions. (8 marks)

SUMMARY OUTPUT

Regression Statistics
Multiple R 0.5169
R Square 0.2672
Adjusted R Square 0.2635
Standard Error 8.0683
Observations 400

ANOVA
  df SS MS F Significance F
Regression 2 9421.58 ? ? 0.0000
Residual ? 25843.41 ?
Total ? 35264.98      

  Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value

Intercept 93.8993 8.0072 11.7269 0.0000

X1 0.4849 0.0412 11.7772 0.0000
X2 -0.0229 0.0395 -0.5811 0.5615

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a. What is the standard error of estimate? What does this statistic tell you?
(0.5 mark)
b. What is the coefficient of determination? What does this statistic tell you?
(1 mark)
c. What is the adjusted coefficient of determination for degree of freedom? What do this
statistic and the one referred to in part (b) tell you about how well the model fits the data
(1 mark)
d. Test the overall utility of the model. What does the test result tell you? (1.5 marks)
e. Interpret each of the coefficients. (2 marks)
f. Do these data allow the statistic practitioner to infer that the heights of the sons
and the fathers are linearly related? (1 mark)
g. Do these data allow the statistic practitioner to infer that the heights of the sons
and the mothers are linearly related? (1 mark)

END OF THE ASSIGNMENT

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