What factors besides the cubic feet moved might affect labor hours?.
Using the sample information, does it appear that the mean percentage share of billing volume from spot television commercials for the U.S. advertising agencies is greater than the mean percentage share of billing volume from network television? Explain.
[2] A random sample of the birth weights of 186 babies has a mean of 3103g and a standard deviation of 696g (based on data from “Cognitive Outcomes of Preschool Children with Prenatal Cocaine Exposure,” by Singer et al.,Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 291, No. 20). These babies were born to mothers who did not use cocaine during their pregnancies. Further, a random sample of the birth weights of 190 babies born to mothers who used cocaine during their pregnancies has a mean of 2700g and a standard deviation of 645g. Does cocaine use appear to affect the birth weight of a baby? Substantiate you conclusion.
[3] The owner of an intra -city moving company typically has his most experienced manager predict the total number of labor hours that will be required to complete an upcoming move. This approach had proved useful in the past, but he would like to be able to develop a more accurate method of predicting the labor hours by using the amount of cubic feet moved. In a preliminary effort to provide a more accurate method, he has collected data for 36 moves, in which the travel time was an insignificant portion of the labor hours worked.
The data are in the Excel file, MOVING.xls downloadable from File or click Companion Website atwww.peasronhighered.com/levine, and go to the Excel Date Files link.
a)Set up a scatter diagram.
b)Assuming a linear relationship, find the regression coefficients, b0, b1, and its regression equation.
c)Interpret the meaning of the slope b1 in this problem.
d)Predict the labor hours for moving 500 cubic feet.
e)What factors besides the cubic feet moved might affect labor hours?
f)Determine the coefficient of determination,r2,and interpret its meaning.
g)Find the standard error of the estimate.
h)How useful do you think this regression model is for labor hours?
i)Determine if the assumption of normality is violated by using the normal probability plot for residuals.
j)At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence of a linear relationship between the numbers of cubic feet moved and labor hours?
k)Set up a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population slope,b1.
l)Set up a 95% confidence interval estimate of the average labor hours for all moves of 500 cubic feet.
m)Set up a 95% confidence interval of the labor hours of an individual move that has 500 cubic feet.
n)Explain the difference in the results obtained in (l) and (m).
[4] An auto manufacturing company wanted to investigate how the price of one of its car models depreciates with age. The research department at the company took a sample of eight cars of this model and collected the following information on the ages (in years) and prices (in hundreds of dollars) of these cars. The data are in USEDCAR.xls.
What factors besides the cubic feet moved might affect labor hours?
