Using the “cars” dataset in R, build a linear model for stopping distance as a function of speed and replicate the analysis of your textbook chapter 3 (visualization, quality evaluation of the model, and residual analysis.)

Below is the data in the cars, notice that there are two columns, one for speed and another for distance.

data(cars)
cars
##    speed dist
## 1      4    2
## 2      4   10
## 3      7    4
## 4      7   22
## 5      8   16
## 6      9   10
## 7     10   18
## 8     10   26
## 9     10   34
## 10    11   17
## 11    11   28
## 12    12   14
## 13    12   20
## 14    12   24
## 15    12   28
## 16    13   26
## 17    13   34
## 18    13   34
## 19    13   46
## 20    14   26
## 21    14   36
## 22    14   60
## 23    14   80
## 24    15   20
## 25    15   26
## 26    15   54
## 27    16   32
## 28    16   40
## 29    17   32
## 30    17   40
## 31    17   50
## 32    18   42
## 33    18   56
## 34    18   76
## 35    18   84
## 36    19   36
## 37    19   46
## 38    19   68
## 39    20   32
## 40    20   48
## 41    20   52
## 42    20   56
## 43    20   64
## 44    22   66
## 45    23   54
## 46    24   70
## 47    24   92
## 48    24   93
## 49    24  120
## 50    25   85

Simple Linear Regression

Let’s attempt to generate a simple linear regression using these two variables. We will use the lm function in base R and then use the summary function to get the basic statititics from our output. The most important things to look at here, are the R2 values and the Pvalue on our regressiors. Notice that our R2 value is decent, at .65 and that our variable speed has a very low p-value.

stopping_distance = lm(dist ~ speed, data = cars)
summary(stopping_distance)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = dist ~ speed, data = cars)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -29.069  -9.525  -2.272   9.215  43.201 
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept) -17.5791     6.7584  -2.601   0.0123 *  
## speed         3.9324     0.4155   9.464 1.49e-12 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 15.38 on 48 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.6511, Adjusted R-squared:  0.6438 
## F-statistic: 89.57 on 1 and 48 DF,  p-value: 1.49e-12

Looking at our diagnostic plots below, we can see that our residuals are fairly evenly distributed with a very slight curve. In the Normal Q-Q plot shows that our residuals follow a Normal Distribution. In the Scale-Location plot, our residuals appear spread out and normally distributed. In the Residuals vs Leverage plot, we see that no residuals have a high leverage value.

plot(stopping_distance)

Let’s plot the relationship between speed and distance. The plot appears to be linear and the model appears to adequately explain the trend between speed and distance.

plot(cars$speed, cars$dist)
abline(stopping_distance)