Determine child care costs for working parents

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Question 1. Agency revenues. An economic consultant was retained by a large employment agency in a metropolitan area to develop a regression model for predicting monthly agency revenues (y).

She decided that three economic indicators for the area were potentially useful as independent variables, namely, average weekly overtime hours of production workers in manufacturing ( .3C1 ), number of job vacancies in manufacturing (x2 ), and index of help wanted advertising in newspapers (x3). Monthly observations on agency revenues and the three independent variables were obtained for the past 25 months.

The ANOVA table for the model y =β₀+ β₁x₁ + β₂x₂+β₃x₃ + ε as follows:

Source	d.f.	SS	MS
Re. ression	3	5409.89	1803.30
Error	21	16.35	0.78
Total	24	5426.24

The consultant decided to screen the independent variables to determine the best set for predicting agency revenues. The regression sums of squares for all possible regression models were found to be as follows:

Independent variables in the model SSR

X₁ 2970.64

X₂3654.85

X₃3584.54

X₁,x₂ 5123.80

X₁,X₃ 5409.59

X₂, X₃ 3741.30

X₁, X₂, X₃ 5409.89

(a) Determine the subset of variables that is selected as best by the forward selection procedure using F_o = 4.2 (to-add-variable). Show your steps.

(b) Determine the subset of variables that is selected as best by the backward elimination procedure using F_o = 4.1 (to-delete-variable). Show your steps.

(c) Determine the subset of variables that is selected as best by the stepwise regression procedure using F_o = 4.2 (to-add) and F_o = 4.1 (to-delete). Show your steps.

Question 2. In a survey to determine child care costs for working parents, the local Chamber of Commerce randomly samples licensed child care centers in four regions of the metropolitan area. The purpose of the survey is to see whether and how average child care expense varies according to region. The following figures are the weekly costs of child care for a 2-year-old:

Suburban East	Downtown Area	Suburban West	Suburban South
90.00	94.00	82.00	86.50
87.50	97.50	84.50	88.00
89.50	94.00	88.00	89.50
90.00	92.50	85.50	85.00

Establish whether average costs are equal across the four regions; if not, do a follow-up analysis to determine which are the same and which differ. (Use a =0.10). List all necessary assumptions and indicate which might be suspect. Also perform a non-parametric analysis. Verify your results using SAS.

Question 3. A chain of convenience stores tested a display for a new snack product by placing the display in four different locations in various stores; at the entrance, in the snack section, by the cash register, and with the soft drinks. Each display location was utilized in three stores over a one-week test period. Because the 12 stores which used to test the display differ somewhat in overall sales volume, they were divided into three categories. Within each category, the assignment of stores to display method was random. Units sold are shown in the following table:

Unit Sales, by Location Display

Store
Sales Volume	Entrance	Snacks	Reaister	Drinks
Below average	46	38	57	54
Average	62	50	67	67
Above average	75	62	89	77

Is it possible to be 99% certain that the display locations' mean sales are not equal? Conduct the appropriate follow-up analysis (use a =0.01) to establish which means are significantly different. List all necessary assumptions and indicate which might be suspect. Also perform a non-parametric analysis. Verify your results using SAS.

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