Question: A study utilized a one-time questionnaire to collect data from 600 people to identify factors associated with body mass index (BMI). The variables for the
A study utilized a one-time questionnaire to collect data from 600 people to identify factors associated with body mass index (BMI). The variables for the analysis are described in the table below.
Variable Name | Variable Description | Value |
ID | Participant ID | 1 to 600 |
age | Age (in years) | Continuous |
sex | Sex assigned at birth | 1=Females 0=Males |
smoke | Current smoking status | 1=Yes 0=No |
bmi | Body mass index (kg/m2) | Continuous |
> summary(lm(bmi~sex+smoke+age))
Call:
lm(formula = bmi ~ sex + smoke + age)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-10.1280 -2.9205 -0.4545 2.3458 17.5262
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 31.53865 1.46909 21.468 <2e-16 ***
sex -1.04099 0.41222 -2.525 0.0118 *
smoke -1.32750 0.51584 -2.573 0.0103 *
age -0.03989 0.02211 -1.804 0.0717 .
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Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Residual standard error: 4.542 on 596 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.02771, Adjusted R-squared: 0.02282
F-statistic: 5.662 on 3 and 596 DF, p-value: 0.0007911
Does the multiple linear regression model explain most of the variability in BMI? Briefly justify your response.
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