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1) If the Pearson's correlation coefficient between two variables X and Y is found to

be negative1.3. This means

Question 1 options:

Correlation value is not possible

Strong negative correlation between variables X and Y

Strong positive correlation between variables X and Y

Weak negative correlation between variables X and Y

Weak positive correlation between variables X and Y

2) To test the hypothesis that population correlation coefficient is not zero, we


collected a sample of size 15 and found the sample correlation coefficient is 0.25.
What is the test value to test this hypothesis?

Question 2 options:

1.5

0.25

0.75

0.93

3) Correlation is calculated using 20 pair of sample data. Find the degrees of


freedom to test the hypothesis about correlation.

Question 3 options:

19

25

18

21

20

4) Following table shows study hours per week and GPA of five students

Study hrs

2 5 7 4 8

GPA

1.7 3.2 3.8 3.5 4.0

Calculate the Pearson's correlation coefficient between Study hours and GPA of the
students students.

Question 4 options:

0.62

0.59

0.89

0.79

0.99

5) Following table shows study hours per week and GPA of five students

Study hrs

25748

GPA

1.7 3.2 3.8 3.5 4.0

Calculate the test value to test the claim that there is significant correlation
between Study hours and GPA of the students.

Question 5 options:

2.75

3.38

4.21

1.28

2.12

6) Following table shows study hours per week and GPA of five students

Study hrs

25748

GPA

1.7 3.2 3.8 3.5 4.0

Calculate the p-value to test the claim that there is significant correlation between
Study hours and GPA of the students.

Question 6 options:

10% < p value < 20%

5% < p value < 10%

2% < p value < 5%

1% < p value < 2%

1% < p value < 2.5%

7) Following table shows study hours per week and GPA of five students

Study hrs

25748

GPA

1.7 3.2 3.8 3.5 4.0

Calculate the p-value to test the claim that there is significant correlation between
Study hours and GPA of the students. If alpha is 5% what is your decision?

Question 7 options:

There is no significant correlation between two variables.

There is significant correlation between two variables.

Not enough information to make decision

8) Following table shows study hours per week and GPA of five students

Study hrs

2 5 7 4 8

GPA

1.7 3.2 3.8 3.5 4.0

Calculate the critical value to test the claim that there is significant correlation
between Study hours and GPA of the students. Take alpha is 5%.

Question 8 options:

2.353

3.182

2.015

2.571

9) Use the following regression model for prediction:

Beta0hat = 5.45, Beta1hat =-0.182. Find dependent variable Yhat when X is 2.5

Note:

Beta0hat = Estimate of Y intercept

Beta1hat = Estimate of slope of the regression line

Question 9 options:

2.39

6.99

9.99

2.99

4.99

10) In simple linear regression model

Y = 0+ 1X +

what is ?

Question 10 options:

Variance of the model

Response variable

Random error

Parameter to be estimated

Predictor Variable

11) In simple linear regression model

Y = 0+ 1X +

what is Y ?

Question 11 options:

Predictor Variable

Parameter to be estimated

Variance of the model

Random error

Response variable

12) Table below gives the weight of diamond and price in dollars.

Which one is the response variable?

Weight Price

0.3

510

0.4

1151

0.5

1343

0.5

1410

1.0

5669

0.7

2277

Question 12 options:

Both Weight and Price

We can not say which one from the given information

Price

Weight

13) Table below gives the weight of diamond and price in dollars.

Fit a simple linear regression model to find what is the estimate of intercept
parameter ?(due to rounding error go to the closest answer)

Weight Price

0.3

510

0.4

1151

0.5

1343

0.5

1410

1.0

5669

0.7

2277

Question 13 options:

1278

7177

-7177

-2007

14) Table below gives the weight of diamond and price in dollars.

Fit a simple linear regression model to find what is the estimate of the slope
parameter ?(due to rounding error go to the closest answer)

Weight Price

0.3

510

0.4

1151

0.5

1343

0.5

1410

1.0

5669

0.7

2277

Question 14 options:

7177

-2007

1278

-7177

15) Table below gives the weight of diamond and price in dollars.

Fit a simple linear regression model and estimate the price if the weight of the
diamond is 1.5 carats ? (due to rounding error go to the closest answer)

Weight Price

0.3

510

0.4

1151

0.5

1343

0.5

1410

1.0

5669

0.7

2277

Question 15 options:

7177

8759

1278

2834

16) If pair of 10 observations show the correlation coefficient 0.37. To test the
significance of the population correlation coefficient find test value

Question 16 options:

2.56

1.32

1.13

2.90

3.10

17) Suppose the population correlation coefficient between two variables X and Y is
o.77 , covariance of X and Y is 2.7 and standard deviation of X is 1.5. Find the
standard deviation of Y.

Question 17 options:

3.12

5.46

1.42

2.34

0.92

18) Calculate correlation between X and Y from 6 pairs of observations If we know

Sum of XY =20485

Sum of X= 247

Sum of Y= 486

Sum of X square= 11409

Sum of Y square= 40022

Question 18 options:

0.19

0.71

0.23

0.95

0.53

19) When testing the hypothesis about parameters of multiple linear regression
model

H0: B1=B2=....=Bk=0

H1: at least one Bi is not zero.

we use

Question 19 options:

t test

chi-square test

F test

Z-test

20) Which of the following is not the assumption of a linear regression model?

Question 20 options:

Error term is normally distributed

Values of the response variable (Y) must be categorical

Error term has the same variance in each


observation.

Response variable (Y) and predictors (X) are linearly related.

Errors are independent

21) (Bonus) Table below gives the systolic blood pressure measurement in left and
right arm.

Estimate the blood pressure in left arm given that blood pressure in right arm is 135
mm Hg.

Right Arm Left Arm

102

175

101

169

94

182

79

146

79

144

Question 21 options:

120.25

312.17

221.12

198.07

256.18

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