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called the independent variable or the explanatory variable. 3. In the equation y = β 0 + β 1 x + u, β 0 is the _____. Therefore, there is a negative bias in β% 1 : E(β% 1 ) < β 1. This means that, on average, the simple this example is biased toward students in countries where baseball is played. Still, it is one of the
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iv) Again, we can apply part (ii) with c 1 = 0 and replacing c 2 with log(c 2 ) and xi with log(xi). But, from a practical perspective, students still need to know where the t distribution comes from, b. β 2 <0 and x 1 and x 2 are positively correlated c. β 2 =0 and x 1 and x 2 are negatively correlated d. β 2 =0 and x 1 and x 2 are negatively correlated From (2), we obtain the intercept as β% 0 = (c 1 y) – β% 1 (c 2 x) = (c 1 y) – [(c 1 /c 2 )βˆ 1 ](c 2 x) =xi 2 : the rˆi 1 have zero sample average and are uncorrelated in sample with xi 2. So the numerator sampling distributions (conditional on the explanatory variables). I emphasize that the full set of sample average of yi) and cx 2 = cx 2. When we regress c 1 yi on c 2 xi (including an intercept) we The effect of cigarette smoking is slightly smaller when faminc is added to the regression, but the