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This document is a summary of a student's results on the Week 4 Lab in a Coursera course on Bayesian statistics. The student earned 8 out of 9 available points on the quiz questions. Most of the questions assessed the student's ability to interpret the results of Bayesian regression models and credible intervals for parameters. Based on the models, the student was able to correctly determine which variables best predicted wage and which had the lowest influence.

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Week 4 Lab - Coursera

This document is a summary of a student's results on the Week 4 Lab in a Coursera course on Bayesian statistics. The student earned 8 out of 9 available points on the quiz questions. Most of the questions assessed the student's ability to interpret the results of Bayesian regression models and credible intervals for parameters. Based on the models, the student was able to correctly determine which variables best predicted wage and which had the lowest influence.

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Week4Lab|Coursera

Week 4 Lab
Back to Week 4

8/9 points
earned (88%)
Quiz passed!

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points

1.
Is this an observational study or an experiment?
Observational study
Correct Response

Experiment

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2.
Which of the following statements is false about the distribution of
wage?
The median of the distribution is 905.
25% of respondents make more than 1160 dollars per week.
7 of the respondents make less than 300 dollars per week.
Correct Response

wage is right-skewed, meaning that more respondents fall


below the mean wage than above it.

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3.
Examine the residuals of m_wage_iq. Is the assumption of normally
distributed errors valid?
Yes, since the distribution of the dependent variable (wage) is
roughly normally distributed.
Yes, since the distribution of the residuals of the model looks
approximately normal.
No, since the distribution of the residuals of the model is leftskewed.
No, since the distribution of the residuals of the model is rightskewed.
Correct Response

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4.
Under the reference prior p(, , 2 ) 1/ 2 , give a 95% posterior
credible interval for , the coecient of IQ.
(0.00793, 0.00967)
(0.00709, 0.01050)
Correct Response

(0.00663, 0.01098)
(0.00010, 0.01750)

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5.
From the model, all else begin equal, who would you expect to make

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From the model, all else begin equal, who would you expect to make
more: a married black man or a single non-black man?
The married black man
Correct Response

The single non-black man

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6.
Elimination of which variable from the full model yielded the lowest BIC?
brthord
sibs
feduc
meduc
Incorrect Response

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7.
Based on this reduced data set, according to Bayesian model averaging,
which of the following variables has the lowest marginal posterior
inclusion probability?
kww
black
south
age
Correct Response

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8.
True or False: The naive model with all variables included has posterior
probability greater than 0.5. (Use a Zellner-Siow null prior for the
coecients and a Beta-Binomial (1,1) prior for the models.)
True
Correct Response

False

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9.
Estimate a 95% central credible interval for a new observation y5 .
(-3.71, 5.73)
(-2.06, 4.10)
Correct Response

(-1.18, 3.19)

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