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RESEARCH METHODS STUDENT ACTIVITY (Using Gretl)
RESEARCH METHODS STUDENT ACTIVITY (Using Gretl)
I collected data from 100 students who took the university entrance exam in 2016. This
exam in Vietnam has the same exam questions across the country.
SCORE is the score of students. It is calculated by combining scores of 3 subjects and 10
is the highest score of each subject.
There are 3 largest cities (Ho Chi Minh city, Hanoi city and Da Nang city) among 63
provinces in Vietnam. The students who lived and studied mainly in these 3 cities before
the exam were reported “1” in the CITY column. And the remaining students were “0”.
RANK is the order of the students, ranked ascending.
Dependent variable is: RANK, independent variables are: SCORE and CITY.
Step 2: Calculate the summary statistic:
The mean value of SCORE is 21,87. The minimum and maximum of the SCORE valued
17,50 and 24,80 respectively.
Step 3: Run the regression (run one x variable with y)
It shows that if the score increase 1 mark, the rank of student will increase 16,9748 unit.
It appears a negative integer between SCORE and RANK because the higher the SCORE,
the smaller the number in RANK column. The higher the student’s ranking is, the smaller
a number indicates.
Step 5: Precise the meaning of the R-squared:
The R-squared of the model is 0,947601 which means almost observations (94,7601%)
can be explained by the model’s inputs (SCORE) and 5,2399% can be explained by other
variables and errors.
Step 6: Estimate the second independent variable (run two x variables with y)