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?

  1. Normally distributed variables
  2. Multicollinearity
  3. Linear relationship
  4. Constant variance
  5. Normally distributed residuals

Ans: B

2: Continuous predictors influence the ______ of the regression line, while categorical predictors influence the _____________.

  1. slope, intercept
  2. intercept, slope
  3. R2, p-value
  4. p-value, R2

Ans: A

3: Which of the following is true about the adjusted R2?

  1. It is usually larger than the R2
  2. It is only used when there is just one predictor
  3. It is usually smaller than the R2
  4. It is used to determine whether residuals are normally distributed

Ans: C

4: Significance for the coefficients (b) is determined by

  1. an F-test.
  2. an R2 test.
  3. a correlation coefficient.
  4. a t-test.

Ans: D

5: The R2 is the squared correlation of which two values?

  1. y and the predicted values of y
  2. y and each continuous x
  3. b and t
  4. b and se

Ans: A