Consider the stack loss data in Exercise 12-20. Build regression models for the data using the following techniques:

(a) All possible regressions.

(b) Stepwise regression.

(c) Forward selection.

(d) Backward elimination.

(e) Comment on the models obtained. Which model would you prefer? Why?

(f) Remove any influential data points and repeat the model building in the previous parts? Does your conclusion in part (e) change?

Exercise 12-20

An article in Technometrics (1974, Vol. 16, pp. 523€“531) considered the following stack-loss data from a plant oxidizing ammonia to nitric acid. Twenty-one daily responses of stack loss (the amount of ammonia escaping) were measured with air flow x₁, temperature x₂, and acid concentration x₃.

y = 42, 37, 37, 28, 18, 18, 19, 20, 15, 14, 14, 13, 11, 12, 8, 7, 8, 8, 9, 15, 15 x, = 80, 80, 75, 62, 62, 62, 62, 62, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 58, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 56, 70 x, = 27, 27, 25, 24, 22, 23, 24, 24, 23, 18, 18, 17, 18, 19, 18, 18, 19, 19, 20, 20, 20 x, = 89, 88, 90, 87, 87, 87, 93, 93, 87, 80, 89, 88, 82, 93, 89, 86, 72, 79, 80, 82, 91