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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