EDUC 242 PROBLEM SET 7

CORRELATION AND REGRESSION

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Use the six steps hypothesis test in analysing the ff problems.
2. Submit the result (soft copy) after analysis.

PART I:
CORRELATION AND REGRESSION

1. A group of students was asked to estimate the amount of time each spends per day
reading the newspaper. Then each student was given a 20-item recognition test of
current events. The paired scores are:
Student Time in Score
Minutes

A 18 14

B 26 19

C 58 30

D 10 8

E 8 4

F 5 5

G 20 11

H 46 15

I 37 19

J 21 18

K 15 7

L 3 10

M 8 12
 N 27 17

O 41 20

P 23 12

What is the degree of relationship between the variables? Is it significant? How much of
the variability in the data is accounted for by r? Do time predict score of students.
Establish the regression equation line and interpret.
2. Without knowing who is married to whom, an observer has rated the attractiveness of 10
couples on a 10-point scale. Compute the appropriate correlation coefficient, and test it
for significance. Also find the best fitting regression line.

Couple Wife’s Rating Husband’s Rating

A79
B47
C64
D96
E37
F24
G54
H89
I 10 8
J85

3. An investigator is interested in predicting scores for a measure of cognitive function from

the number of hours of sleep a person gets on average. He obtains scores for both the
number of hours of sleep and cognitive function from 15 people. Higher scores for
cognitive function reflect higher levels of performance.

Hours of Cognitive Sleep Function

9.7 121
6.4 89
6.8 78
7.9 73
8.9 115
7.3 98
5.7 67
8.5 135
9.6 121
6.9 98
 9.5 124
9.6 121
6.8 89
5.9 78
6.2 75

Use SPSS to address the following questions:

a. What is the correlation coefficient between the number of hours of sleep and
scores on the measure of cognitive function? Is the correlation coefficient
significantly different from zero? What conclusion should the investigator draw
on the basis of this test?
b. What is the regression equation used to obtain predicted scores for cognitive
function from the number of hours of sleep? Using the regression equation, what
will the predicted score for cognitive function be if a person reports that they get
8.5 hours of sleep?
c. Does the amount of sleep account for a significant amount of variability in scores
for cognitive function?
d. Provide a scatterplot with the number of hours of sleep on the X-axis and scores
for cognitive function on the Y-axis. Have SPSS display the regression line within
this scatterplot.

PART II:

USE YOUR 150 GENERATED RANDOM SAMPLES IN PS1, PERFORM THE SUGGESTED STEPS IN HYPOTHEIS TEST:

1. USING EXAM AS THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE, CORRELATE SELFEFFICACY AND EXAM FOR OVERALL
SAMPLES, ALSO BY GENDER AND SES.

2. DO SELFEFFICACY PREDICT EXAM? (ADD ON IF YOU DO REGRESSION BY GENDER AND SES)

NOTE: JUST PRESENT THE SUMMARY TABLE AS SUGGESTED AND BE SURE TO ATTACH OR APPEND THE OUTPUTS OF
YOUR ANALYSIS AFTER THE HYPOTHESIS TEST.

DUE DATE: NOVEMBER 21, 2020