LMR Exercise 7.3
## year divorce unemployed femlab
## Min. :1920 Min. : 6.10 Min. : 1.200 Min. :22.70
## 1st Qu.:1939 1st Qu.: 8.70 1st Qu.: 4.200 1st Qu.:27.47
## Median :1958 Median :10.60 Median : 5.600 Median :37.10
## Mean :1958 Mean :13.27 Mean : 7.173 Mean :38.58
## 3rd Qu.:1977 3rd Qu.:20.30 3rd Qu.: 7.500 3rd Qu.:47.80
## Max. :1996 Max. :22.80 Max. :24.900 Max. :59.30
## marriage birth military
## Min. : 49.70 Min. : 65.30 Min. : 1.940
## 1st Qu.: 61.90 1st Qu.: 68.90 1st Qu.: 3.469
## Median : 74.10 Median : 85.90 Median : 9.102
## Mean : 72.97 Mean : 88.89 Mean :12.365
## 3rd Qu.: 80.00 3rd Qu.:107.30 3rd Qu.:14.266
## Max. :118.10 Max. :122.90 Max. :86.641
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## Call:
## lm(formula = divorce ~ . - year, data = divusa)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -3.8611 -0.8916 -0.0496 0.8650 3.8300
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 2.48784 3.39378 0.733 0.4659
## unemployed -0.11125 0.05592 -1.989 0.0505 .
## femlab 0.38365 0.03059 12.543 < 2e-16 ***
## marriage 0.11867 0.02441 4.861 6.77e-06 ***
## birth -0.12996 0.01560 -8.333 4.03e-12 ***
## military -0.02673 0.01425 -1.876 0.0647 .
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 1.65 on 71 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.9208, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9152
## F-statistic: 165.1 on 5 and 71 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
## divorce unemployed femlab marriage birth military
## divorce 1.00 -0.21 0.91 -0.53 -0.72 0.02
## unemployed -0.21 1.00 -0.26 -0.27 -0.31 -0.40
## femlab 0.91 -0.26 1.00 -0.65 -0.60 0.05
## marriage -0.53 -0.27 -0.65 1.00 0.67 0.26
## birth -0.72 -0.31 -0.60 0.67 1.00 0.14
## military 0.02 -0.40 0.05 0.26 0.14 1.00
## unemployed femlab marriage birth military
## 2.252888 3.613276 2.864864 2.585485 1.249596
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = divorce ~ . - year - unemployed - military, data = divusa)
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## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -3.6923 -1.1934 -0.0534 1.2265 3.6701
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) -1.54545 2.21247 -0.699 0.487
## femlab 0.41337 0.02275 18.174 < 2e-16 ***
## marriage 0.12609 0.02199 5.735 2.07e-07 ***
## birth -0.11627 0.01412 -8.235 5.10e-12 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 1.695 on 73 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.9141, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9106
## F-statistic: 258.9 on 3 and 73 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
## femlab marriage birth
## 1.893390 2.201891 2.008469
By removing insignificant predictors collinearity was reduced