A Hypothesis Testing on the possible IT Final Grade of a Student given the Final English Grade
using Regression Analysis
May 16, 2014
Problem/ Situation: Plot a scatter diagram of the following data then use regression analysis to predict the final grade of a PT-1A student in IT if his final grade in English is: a. 1.0 b. 3.2 FINAL ENGLISH GRADES AND IT GRADES OF 30 STUDENTS IN BSPT-1A FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER
1. H o : There is no significant correlation between the PT - 1A students (2 nd semester) English Grade and IT Grade. H a : There is a significant correlation between the PT 1A students (2 nd semester) English Grade and IT Grade.
2. Level of significance = 5% 3. Pearson r is used to test the hypothesis 4. Computation
= 30 (152.19) (73.4)(61.7)
= 4565.7 4528.78
= 36.92 86.62 r = 0.43
r verbal interpretation 0.00 no correlation 0.01 - + 0.20 slight correlation + 0.21 - + 0.40 low correlation + 0.41 - + 0.70 moderate correlation + 0.71 - + 0.80 high correlation + 0.81 - + 0.99 very high correlation 1.00 Perfect correlation
5. df = N- 2 = 30 2 = 28 6. Tabular Value = 0.361 (from Appendix C) 7. Reject the null hypothesis because the computed value is greater than the tabular value. 8. There is a significant linear relationship between the English Grade and IT Grade. The verbal interpretation shows that there is a moderate correlation between the two variables.
b.) Once it is proven that the variables are correlated, regression analysis can now be used to predict the IT grade by using this formula
y = a + bx
where y = the criterion measure x = the predictor a = the ordinate or the point where the regression line crosses the y axis b = the beta weight of the slope of the line
to get the regression equation, the values of a and b are computed:
a = (y)( x 2 ) (x) (xy) n (x 2 ) (x) 2
b = n xy - x y n (x 2 ) (x) 2
where n = number of data pairs
x = 73.4 y = 61.7 xy = 152.19 x 2 = 182.68 y 2 = 129.59 (x) 2 = 5387.56 (y) 2 = 3806.89
a = (y)( x 2 ) (x) (xy) n (x 2 ) (x) 2 = (61.7)(182.68) (73.4)(152.19) 30 (182.68) (5387.56) = 11 271.356 11 170.746 5480.4 5387.56 = 100.61 92.84 a = 1.084