Multiple Choice Questions
Before completing the book’s Coder/Hacker chapter exercises, take this multiple-choice pre-test from the end of the chapter.
Next, visit the Coder and Hacker Chapter exercises page for more.
1: Which of the following is not an assumption for simple linear regression?
- Normally distributed variables
- Multicollinearity
- Linear relationship
- Constant variance
- Normally distributed residuals
2: Continuous predictors influence the ______ of the regression line, while categorical predictors influence the _____________.
- slope, intercept
- intercept, slope
- R2, p-value
- p-value, R2
3: Which of the following is true about the adjusted R2?
- It is usually larger than the R2
- It is only used when there is just one predictor
- It is usually smaller than the R2
- It is used to determine whether residuals are normally distributed
4: Significance for the coefficients (b) is determined by
- an F-test.
- an R2 test.
- a correlation coefficient.
- a t-test.
5: The R2 is the squared correlation of which two values?
- y and the predicted values of y
- y and each continuous x
- b and t
- b and se