The Ladies Professional Golfers Association (LPGA) maintains statistics on performance and earnings for members of the LPGATour. Year-end performance statistics for the 30 players who had the highest total earnings in LPGA Tour events for 2005 appear on the data disk in the file named LPGATour (www.lpga.com, 2006). Earnings ($1000) is the total earnings in thousands of dollars; Scoring Avg. is the average score for all events; Greens in Reg. is the percentage of time a player is able to hit the green in regulation; Putting Avg. is the average number of putts taken on greens hit in regulation; and Sand Saves is the percentage of time a player is able to get "up and down" once in a greenside sand bunker. A green is considered hit in regulation if any part of the ball is touching the putting surface and the difference between the value of par for the hole and the number of strokes taken to hit the green is at least 2.
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Develop an estimated regression equation that can be used to predict the total earnings given the average number of putts taken on greens hit in regulation (to the nearest whole number).
Earnings (000s) = + PuttAvg
What is the SSE associated with this model (to the nearest whole number)?
What is the value of the coefficient of determination (to 3 decimals)? Note: report R2 between 0 and 1.
Develop an estimated regression equation that can be used to predict the total earnings by adding two independent variables to the regression equation in part (a). The added variables are the percentage of time a player is able to hit the green in regulation and the percentage of time a player is able to make a sand save by getting "up and down" once in a greenside bunker (to the nearest whole number).
Earnings (000s) =	+ PuttAvg
+ GreensReg + SandSaves
What is the SSE associated with this model (to the nearest whole number)?
What is the value of the coefficient of determination (to 3 decimals)? Note: report R2 between 0 and 1.
Using = .05, test whether the two independent variables added in part (b) contributed significantly to the estimated regression equation.
What is the value of the F test statistic (to 2 decimals)?
What is the p-value?
Selectless than .01between .01 and .025between .025 and .05between .05 and .10greater than .10Item 12
What is your conclusion about the two variables GreensReg and SandSaves?
SelectConclude that these variables contribute significantly to the modelCannot conclude that these variables contribute significantly to the modelItem 13
In general, low scores should lead to high earnings. To investigate this option, develop a simple linear regression that will predict total earnings based on average score (to the nearest whole number).
Earnings (000s) = + ScoreAvg
What is the value of the coefficient of determination (to 3 decimals)? Note: report R2 between 0 and 1.
Which regression model considered in this exercise would you prefer to use?
Player	Earnings ($1000)	Scoring Avg.	Greens in Reg.	Putting Avg.	Sand Saves
Annika Sorenstam	2588	69.33	0.772	1.75	0.595
Paula Creamer	1532	70.98	0.727	1.75	0.468
Cristie Kerr	1361	70.86	0.722	1.76	0.362
Lorena Ochoa	1202	71.39	0.697	1.75	0.31
Jeong Jang	1132	71.17	0.71	1.79	0.485
Natalie Gulbis	1010	71.24	0.709	1.78	0.343
Meena Lee	870	72.32	0.686	1.82	0.422
Hee-Won Han	856	71.31	0.707	1.78	0.444
Gloria Park	842	71.43	0.7	1.79	0.426
Catriona Matthew	777	71.46	0.696	1.78	0.443
Candie Kung	754	71.52	0.702	1.85	0.393
Marisa Baena	745	71.92	0.684	1.79	0.446
Birdie Kim	715	73.16	0.679	1.86	0.386
Soo-Yun Kang	711	71.8	0.631	1.77	0.581
Lorie Kane	699	72.28	0.718	1.84	0.475
Heather Bowie	677	71.46	0.742	1.82	0.455
Wendy Ward	675	72.14	0.707	1.81	0.413
Pat Hurst	634	71.47	0.709	1.77	0.36
Christina Kim	621	71.66	0.718	1.82	0.307
Rosie Jones	615	71.58	0.662	1.8	0.435
Carin Koch	612	71.59	0.699	1.79	0.408
Liselotte Neumann	607	71.47	0.679	1.81	0.322
Mi Hyun Kim	584	71.65	0.674	1.8	0.25
Juli Inkster	579	71.33	0.701	1.79	0.375
Michele Redman	540	71.59	0.686	1.81	0.386
Jennifer Rosales	514	71.85	0.705	1.81	0.417
Karrie Webb	500	71.52	0.709	1.81	0.353
Sophie Gustafson	485	72.59	0.651	1.81	0.389
Young Kim	471	71.7	0.678	1.79	0.292
Karine Icher	452	72.13	0.728	1.76	0.222