Baby weights, Part I. (9.1, p. 350) The Child Health and Development Studies investigate a range of topics. One study considered all pregnancies between 1960 and 1967 among women in the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in the San Francisco East Bay area. Here, we study the relationship between smoking and weight of the baby. The variable smoke is coded 1 if the mother is a smoker, and 0 if not. The summary table below shows the results of a linear regression model for predicting the average birth weight of babies, measured in ounces, based on the smoking status of the mother.

The variability within the smokers and non-smokers are about equal and the distributions are symmetric. With these conditions satisfied, it is reasonable to apply the model. (Note that we don’t need to check linearity since the predictor has only two levels.)

  1. Write the equation of the regression line.

Answer

Score = B0 + B1 * smoke = (123.05) + 8.94 * smoke

  1. Interpret the slope in this context, and calculate the predicted birth weight of babies born to smoker and non-smoker mothers.

Answer

s <- 1
ns <- 0
m <- -8.94
intercept <- 123.05

birth_wt_smoke<- m*s + intercept
birth_wt_nonsmoke<- m*ns + intercept

birth_wt_smoke
## [1] 114.11
birth_wt_nonsmoke
## [1] 123.05

The predicted birth weight for non-smoker mothers is 123.05 and 114.11 for smoker mothers.

  1. Is there a statistically significant relationship between the average birth weight and smoking?

Answer

Yes because the p-value that is much much less than 0.05. This means that the slope is statistically significant.

Absenteeism, Part I. (9.4, p. 352) Researchers interested in the relationship between absenteeism from school and certain demographic characteristics of children collected data from 146 randomly sampled students in rural New South Wales, Australia, in a particular school year. Below are three observations from this data set.

The summary table below shows the results of a linear regression model for predicting the average number of days absent based on ethnic background (eth: 0 - aboriginal, 1 - not aboriginal), sex (sex: 0 - female, 1 - male), and learner status (lrn: 0 - average learner, 1 - slow learner).

  1. Write the equation of the regression line.

Answer

B0 + B1eth + B2 sex +B3 * lrn

= 18.93 + 2.15lrn + 3.1sex - 9.11*eth

  1. Interpret each one of the slopes in this context.

Answer

If students are not aboriginal, they will be absent 9.11 less days. If students are male, they will be absent 3.1 days If students are slow learner, they will be absent 2.15 more days.

  1. Calculate the residual for the first observation in the data set: a student who is aboriginal, male, a slow learner, and missed 2 days of school.

Answer

a <- 18.93 - 0 + 3.1 + 2.15
residual <- 2 - a
residual
## [1] -22.18

The residual is -22.18

  1. The variance of the residuals is 240.57, and the variance of the number of absent days for all students in the data set is 264.17. Calculate the \(R^2\) and the adjusted \(R^2\). Note that there are 146 observations in the data set.
R <- 1-(240.57/264.17)
Adj_R<- 1-((1-R)*(146-1)/(146-3-1))

R
## [1] 0.08933641
Adj_R
## [1] 0.07009704

The R Squared is .0893 and the Adjusted R Squared is 0.0701.

Absenteeism, Part II. (9.8, p. 357) Exercise above considers a model that predicts the number of days absent using three predictors: ethnic background (eth), gender (sex), and learner status (lrn). The table below shows the adjusted R-squared for the model as well as adjusted R-squared values for all models we evaluate in the first step of the backwards elimination process.

Which, if any, variable should be removed from the model first?

Answer

The learner status should be removed because it has the highest adjusted r squared value.

Challenger disaster, Part I. (9.16, p. 380) On January 28, 1986, a routine launch was anticipated for the Challenger space shuttle. Seventy-three seconds into the flight, disaster happened: the shuttle broke apart, killing all seven crew members on board. An investigation into the cause of the disaster focused on a critical seal called an O-ring, and it is believed that damage to these O-rings during a shuttle launch may be related to the ambient temperature during the launch. The table below summarizes observational data on O-rings for 23 shuttle missions, where the mission order is based on the temperature at the time of the launch. Temp gives the temperature in Fahrenheit, Damaged represents the number of damaged O-rings, and Undamaged represents the number of O-rings that were not damaged.

  1. Each column of the table above represents a different shuttle mission. Examine these data and describe what you observe with respect to the relationship between temperatures and damaged O-rings.

Answer

Low temperature seems to cause O-ring damages. The lower the temperature, the more O-rings are to be damaged.

  1. Failures have been coded as 1 for a damaged O-ring and 0 for an undamaged O-ring, and a logistic regression model was fit to these data. A summary of this model is given below. Describe the key components of this summary table in words.

Answer

The probability of damaged o-rings decreases by 2162.

  1. Write out the logistic model using the point estimates of the model parameters.

Answer

log(p/1−p)=11.6630 − 0.2162 × Temperature

  1. Based on the model, do you think concerns regarding O-rings are justified? Explain.

Answer

Yes, the result is statistically significant because the slope indicates that lower temperatures result in greater probability of o-ring damage.

Challenger disaster, Part II. (9.18, p. 381) Exercise above introduced us to O-rings that were identified as a plausible explanation for the breakup of the Challenger space shuttle 73 seconds into takeoff in 1986. The investigation found that the ambient temperature at the time of the shuttle launch was closely related to the damage of O-rings, which are a critical component of the shuttle. See this earlier exercise if you would like to browse the original data.

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  1. The data provided in the previous exercise are shown in the plot. The logistic model fit to these data may be written as \[\begin{align*} \log\left( \frac{\hat{p}}{1 - \hat{p}} \right) = 11.6630 - 0.2162\times Temperature \end{align*}\]

where \(\hat{p}\) is the model-estimated probability that an O-ring will become damaged. Use the model to calculate the probability that an O-ring will become damaged at each of the following ambient temperatures: 51, 53, and 55 degrees Fahrenheit. The model-estimated probabilities for several additional ambient temperatures are provided below, where subscripts indicate the temperature:

\[\begin{align*} &\hat{p}_{57} = 0.341 && \hat{p}_{59} = 0.251 && \hat{p}_{61} = 0.179 && \hat{p}_{63} = 0.124 \\ &\hat{p}_{65} = 0.084 && \hat{p}_{67} = 0.056 && \hat{p}_{69} = 0.037 && \hat{p}_{71} = 0.024 \end{align*}\]

Answer

#Temperature at 51
p_temp51 <-exp(11.6630-0.2162*51)/(1+exp(11.6630-0.2162*51))

#Temperature at 53
p_temp53 <-exp(11.6630-0.2162*53)/(1+exp(11.6630-0.2162*53))

#Temperature at 55
p_temp55 <-exp(11.6630-0.2162*55)/(1+exp(11.6630-0.2162*55))
p_temp51
## [1] 0.6540297
p_temp53
## [1] 0.5509228
p_temp55
## [1] 0.4432456

The probalility of a damaged O-ring at 51 degress is 65.4%.

The probalility of a damaged O-ring at 53 degressis 55.09%.

The probalility of a damaged O-ring at 55 degress is 44.32%.

  1. Add the model-estimated probabilities from part~(a) on the plot, then connect these dots using a smooth curve to represent the model-estimated probabilities.

Answer

  1. Describe any concerns you may have regarding applying logistic regression in this application, and note any assumptions that are required to accept the model’s validity.

Answer

  1. Presence of outliers.

  2. Residuals shoulb be normal

  3. Variance of residuals is constant

  4. The size of the dataset.