In general, you ought to read over all of the exercises at
the end of chapters. I will pick out a few that seem most relevant,
but that does not mean that you should ignore the others.
You have a week to submit what you've done. I don't expect everyone
to complete them all, but you should show evidence that you've tried
to do them. You also need not use JMP for the necessary computing,
but you will need to have access to some sort of software because
some questions call for doing a bit of computing.
Solutions will be posted on the day that assignments are returned,
and then removed from the web page. As discussed in class, these
exercises contribute 40% of your grade in the course.
- Due ... after Spring Break
Remind/teach yourself how to use JMP! Most of you will have
seen this in Stat 101/102.
- Due ... Thursday, March 26 (at class) From the Bowerman textbook
(Data is in
Table 3-8 and
Table 3-12):
3.9 (reproduce the scatterplot and fitted line using JMP)
3.10, 3.11,
3.18 (show JMP output)
3.22 a-d (let JMP do messy calculations)
3.30 (confirm results),
3.35, 3.36
Solutions
- Due ... Thursday, April 2 (at class) From the Bowerman textbook
(Data is in
Table 4-11,
Table 4-16, and
Table 4-18):
4.2 (include the scatterplot matrix showing 'y' in the top row)
4.4 (parts a,b only; show the JMP summary of your multiple regression)
4.6 (parts c,g), 4.8 (part b only), 4.10
4.19
4.20 (parts a,b: Fit model with JMP and interpret coefficient of dummy variable)
4.20 (c,d)
4.22 (Test the null hypothesis that claims that the coefficient of both dummy variables is
zero. Hint: don't use a t-statistic. You do not need to prepare answers for a-c in the text.)
Solutions
- Due ... Thursday, April 9 (at class) Do all parts of the exercises unless indicated otherwise.
From the Bowerman textbook
(Data is from Table 3.2 QHIC ,
Table 5.5 Hospital ,
Table 6.6 Lumber , and
Table 6.9 Energy ):
[5.13] Fit the indicated model using JMP; show a summary of your fit. Then for part
b, find the 95% prediction interval for a $250,000 home (not 220,000 as in text).
[5.16] (parts a,b only) Show the fitted JMP regression summary, and answer questions posed
in parts a,b of the text.
[6.1] For b, show the calculation of the prediction interval. Do you think that this interval
"should" be the same for all forecast periods? Explain why or why not.
For c, construct a scatterplot that shows the presence or absence of autocorrelation.
You do not need to find the DW statistic.
[6.4] For part c.2, report the appropriate test statistics. For part c.4, use JMP to obtain
the prediction intervals and compare these to the "naive" intervals formed as
prediction +- 2 RMSE. For part d, only do 1-3 and use the shown output.
[5] This exercise does not come from the book.
These data give the number of
international airline passengers (in thousands), monthly from around the
end of WWII through a period of rapid expansion
(1949-1960). Notice that the last 12 rows (1960) are excluded and hidden.
- Plot the data over time. What type of model appears appropriate?
- Fit a regression model to be used to predict airline
passengers in 1960. You may, and probably should,
try several models; only report the one you decide to
use. (No fair peeking at the held out data to pick
the model.) Show a summary of your model and
indicate whether (accepting the multiple regression
model)
- the overall model is statistically significant, and
- components of the model are statistically significant.
- Show that your model reasonably satisfies the conditions of the multiple
regression model by checking for
- Autocorrelation (include the Durbin-Watson statistic),
- Equal error variance, and
- Normality.
Show the appropriate plot with each!
- Predict monthly passenger traffic in 1960. Compare
the 12 95% prediction intervals to the actual data.
Summarize how well the predictions of your model
perform. Your answer should include a table with 5
columms: date, actual value, prediction, lower limit,
upper limit.
- What does your model predict for the *total*
passenger miles for all of 1960? Give a prediction
along with an *approximate* 95% interval. Compare
your prediction and interval to the actual total. If
you don't think you can get an approximate interval,
then explain why not. (You ought to be able to get a
prediction of the total, however.)
Solutions
- No assignment for this week. Enjoy the holiday.
- Due ... Thursday, April 23 (at class) From the Bowerman textbook
(Data is in
Table 9-7,
Table 9-9,
Table 9-10, and
Table 8-1 ):
9.6 Answer text questions, but refer to JMP output that you generate.
10.1-10.6 Answer text questions, but use JMP output that you generate.
(JMP may not give the same estimates as shown in the text!)
10.11, 10.12 Use the text figures or JMP to prepare answers.
10.13 Part (a) is more important. For (b), think about the differences
between ARIMA models and exponential smoothing.
Nothing too deep here, but give it some thought.
Solutions