Instructions

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Q1 Describe the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study that the U.S. Department of Education undertook in the late 1990s.

Hint: Make sure to discuss study’s goal, subjects, and variables in the data.

this study was made to see childhood progression and how different races and ways raised effected progression in children in school to get a set of data.

Q2 Describe regression analysis in your own words.

Hint: A correct answer must have a discussion on a main concept of regression, often called as, “all else being equal”, “controlling for other variables”, or “Ceteris paribus”. The author explained this concept using “the circuit board analogy”.

regression annalysis is meant to take two different factors or variables to get a set of data to see if two things work together.

Q3 What is a drawback of regression analysis. What type of questions can regression analysis not answer?

Hint: A correct answer must have a discussion on causality versus correlation.

a steady variable placed between different things.

Q4 What role does the quality of schools play in academic performance of students.

Hint: See page 150.

it plays a strong roll in academic performance because its based on the enviornment students are learning.

Q5 Continued from Q4. How could you control for the quality of schools in the study?

Hint: For this question, you may need additional information in addition to the assigned reading. You may Google search someting like “how does regression control for variables”.

regression controls for every variable thats included in a model or testing it shows the effects of one variable in the test

Q6 The author says that regression is more art than science. What does he mean?

he means its a long process and everything answers other questions with different variables so its not science its an art to the fact that instead of just one test it tests multiple theorys

Q7 What are major takeaways from the reading?

regression annalysis can help ansewr very many questions with less work than going through every bit and piece and its a very effective way of tracking data.

Q8 Hide the messages, but display the code and its results on the webpage.

Hint: Use message, echo and results in the chunk options. Refer to the RMarkdown Reference Guide.

Q9 Display the title and your name correctly at the top of the webpage.

Q10 Use the correct slug.