library(ggplot2)
set.seed (1)
x1 <- runif (100)
x2 <- 0.5 * x1 + rnorm (100) / 10
y <- 2 + 2 * x1 + 0.3 * x2 + rnorm (100)
#The regression coefficients are given by: β0 = 2, β1 = 2, β2 = 0.3
cor(x1, x2)
## [1] 0.8351212
ggplot(mapping = aes(x = x1, y = x2)) +
geom_point()
lm_fit <- lm(y ~ x1 + x2)
summary(lm_fit)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = y ~ x1 + x2)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -2.8311 -0.7273 -0.0537 0.6338 2.3359
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 2.1305 0.2319 9.188 7.61e-15 ***
## x1 1.4396 0.7212 1.996 0.0487 *
## x2 1.0097 1.1337 0.891 0.3754
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 1.056 on 97 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.2088, Adjusted R-squared: 0.1925
## F-statistic: 12.8 on 2 and 97 DF, p-value: 1.164e-05
#β0^ = 2.1304996 (β0 = 2)
#β1^ = 1.4395554 (β1 = 2)
#β2^ = 1.0096742 (β2 = 0.3)
#Using the standard alpha threshold of 0.05, we can reject the null hypothesis for β1, but cannot reject the null hypothesis for β2.
lm_fit1 <- lm(y ~ x1)
summary(lm_fit1)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = y ~ x1)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -2.89495 -0.66874 -0.07785 0.59221 2.45560
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 2.1124 0.2307 9.155 8.27e-15 ***
## x1 1.9759 0.3963 4.986 2.66e-06 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 1.055 on 98 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.2024, Adjusted R-squared: 0.1942
## F-statistic: 24.86 on 1 and 98 DF, p-value: 2.661e-06
#In this case, the null hypothesis for β1 can be rejected.
lm_fit2 <- lm(y ~ x2)
summary(lm_fit2)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = y ~ x2)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -2.62687 -0.75156 -0.03598 0.72383 2.44890
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 2.3899 0.1949 12.26 < 2e-16 ***
## x2 2.8996 0.6330 4.58 1.37e-05 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 1.072 on 98 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.1763, Adjusted R-squared: 0.1679
## F-statistic: 20.98 on 1 and 98 DF, p-value: 1.366e-05
#In this case, the null hypothesis for β1 can be rejected.
#The supposedly contradictory results are from the fact that, in a model with x1 and x2 as predictors, the x2 variable was not significant. However, when testing a model with just x2 as a predictor, we find that it is significant.
#These are not contradictory results, and arise because x2 does not offer enough ‘new information’ when fitting a model that already contains x1. The fact that x2 can be significant on its own and not significant in the presence of x1 arises from the fact that x1 and x2 are highly correlated, so using both the variables means a lot of the information provided by one can is effectively redundant.
x1=c(x1 , 0.1)
x2=c(x2 , 0.8)
y=c(y,6)
lm.fit_ = lm(y~x1+x2)
summary(lm.fit_)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = y ~ x1 + x2)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -2.73348 -0.69318 -0.05263 0.66385 2.30619
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 2.2267 0.2314 9.624 7.91e-16 ***
## x1 0.5394 0.5922 0.911 0.36458
## x2 2.5146 0.8977 2.801 0.00614 **
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 1.075 on 98 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.2188, Adjusted R-squared: 0.2029
## F-statistic: 13.72 on 2 and 98 DF, p-value: 5.564e-06
plot(lm.fit_)
lm.fit_1 = lm(y~x1)
summary(lm.fit_1)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = y ~ x1)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -2.8897 -0.6556 -0.0909 0.5682 3.5665
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 2.2569 0.2390 9.445 1.78e-15 ***
## x1 1.7657 0.4124 4.282 4.29e-05 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 1.111 on 99 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.1562, Adjusted R-squared: 0.1477
## F-statistic: 18.33 on 1 and 99 DF, p-value: 4.295e-05
plot(lm.fit_1)
lm.fit_2 = lm(y~x2)
summary(lm.fit_2)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = y ~ x2)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -2.64729 -0.71021 -0.06899 0.72699 2.38074
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 2.3451 0.1912 12.264 < 2e-16 ***
## x2 3.1190 0.6040 5.164 1.25e-06 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 1.074 on 99 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.2122, Adjusted R-squared: 0.2042
## F-statistic: 26.66 on 1 and 99 DF, p-value: 1.253e-06
plot(lm.fit_2)
