Bоth religiоn аnd science hаve mаny uncertainties and unanswered questiоns.
Bоth religiоn аnd science hаve mаny uncertainties and unanswered questiоns.
Bоth religiоn аnd science hаve mаny uncertainties and unanswered questiоns.
Bоth religiоn аnd science hаve mаny uncertainties and unanswered questiоns.
Bоth religiоn аnd science hаve mаny uncertainties and unanswered questiоns.
Bоth religiоn аnd science hаve mаny uncertainties and unanswered questiоns.
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QUESTION 14
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A dоnkey is аttаched by а rоpe tо a wooden cart at an angle of 23° to the horizontal. The tension in the rope is 210 N. If the cart is dragged horizontally along the floor with a constant speed of 6.0 km/h, calculate how much work the donkey does in 35 minutes.
A nаtiоnаl liquоr retаiler, Tоtal Wine and More, has a store in Tempe. I searched their website and found prices for the Tempe (Tempe Marketplace) location. I searched for Irish Whiskey in 750ml bottles (January 2024). The data are here. The variables are Variety: this is a character variable. Irish whiskey can be "single pot still", "single grain", "single malt" or "blended." This variable designates which variety of whiskey it is. Many of the observations are missing which indicates that the website and bottle label do not specifically state the variety. In that case it is safe to assume it is "blended." Age: the number of years the whiskey was aged or sat in wood barrels. Price: the listed retail price at Total Wine and More. ABV: the alcohol by volume. Reviews: the number of customer reviews reported on the website. Rating: the average rating, in stars, from the customers submitting a review. 1-5 stars are possible with more stars being more favorable. There are a few whiskeys with 0 reviews and these have missing values for the rating. a) What is the mean price? [a_127pt97]. b) At least half of the items are available for less than (choose the smallest correct value) [b_50]. c) What is the correlation between Price and Rating? Note, you can only use observations which have a rating. You can either create a subset with only observations that have a rating or you can use the option use="pairwise.complete.obs" within the cor() function, as in cor(x, y, use="pairwise.complete.obs") [c_pt241]. Before moving to part (d), please create some additional variables that you will use for upcoming questions. Create three dummy variables: SM, SG and SPS. SM=1 if the variety is "single malt." SG=1 if the variety is "single grain." SPS=1 if the variety is "single pot still." Create a variable called ExtraYears. If Age is missing set ExtraYears to 0 and if Age is populated then set ExtraYears to Age - 3. By law, Irish whiskey is aged a minimum of 3 years. If the age is not specified on the label then a good assumption is that the age is 3 years. An example of code for this is IW$ExtraYears = ifelse(is.na(IW$Age) ==T, 0, IW$Age-3). Create a variable ExtraABV as ABV - 40. By law, the minimum ABV is 40% so this variable will indicate the ABV beyond the legal minimum. d) Regress Price on ExtraYears, ExtraABV, SM, SG, SPS and Rating. What is the value of R squared? [d_pt5247]. e) Because three observations did not have any review their Rating was missing. R excluded those observations from the regression you just ran. You should be able to see in the summary output the statement "(3 observations deleted due to missingness)." Is the variable Rating statistically significant? That is, using an alpha of 0.1, is the coefficient on Rating statistically significant? [e_no]. f) If Rating is not statistically significant then remove it from the regression. If it is statistically significant then leave it in the regression. The new R squared is [f_pt562]. g) For this new regression, examine the default residual plots in R. For whiskeys with predicted prices between $200 and $600 choose the best statement. (i) the model seems to be a good predictor of price (ii) the model seems to consistently over predict the price (iii) the model seems to consistently under predict the price. [g_ii]. h) Use an alpha of 0.05 and the new regression (from part f). Does the price of whiskey tend to increase or decrease with ABV and is this change statistically significant? [h_increase_sig]. i) Again, use the new model from part (f). What is the expected price for a blended whiskey that is aged 3 years and has an ABV of 40%? Note: you may want to review the variable definitions and the instructions between parts (c) and (d) before choosing an answer. [i_neg15]. j) In this regression identify an influential observation. While this is a topic from Exam 1 you should still be able to identify the observation by looking at the default residual plots in R. Remove the influential observation; after the exam you may decide to go back and examine the observation further to better understand why it might be influential. With this observation removed, plot the price against the ExtraYears. Based on this plot, create an additional variable that is a transformation of ExtraYears called TEY. This transformation should be based on the relationship you see in the plots and you will use it in an upcoming regression. Choose the transformation that is most appropriate: (i) 1/ExtraYears (ii) log(ExtraYears) (iii) ExtraYears^2. [j_iii]. k) Repeat the regression from parts (f)-(i) with the modifications of: 1. use the smaller dataset without the influential observation from part (j) and 2. use the variable TEY instead of ExtraYears. What is the R squared for this model? [k_pt81]. l) Based on the model results in part (k), which whiskeys are cheaper than blended whiskeys? Do not examine the data further, instead base your answer solely on the regression results from part (k). [l_SMandSG]. m) Again, use the model from part (k). Conduct the test for heteroskedasticity that we have used in this course. Based on this test at the 0.1 level, do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis that the errors are homoskedastic? [m_fail]. n) Examine the residual plots for model (k) and consider the model and dataset used in part (g). Recall that the model in part (g) has ExtraYears instead of TEY and the dataset includes one more observation which you removed for the regression in part (k). Choose the best statement when comparing these two regressions and their residual plots as relates back to question (g). (i) there was no problem in part (g) and still no problem with the new model/data (ii) there was a problem in part (g) but the new model/data have removed the problem (iii) the same problem in part (g) still exists with the new model/data (iv) the problem in part (g) has changed so that in the model/data for part (k) the terms "over" and "under" are swapped. [n_iii].