问题如下:
Candy is a high school’s teacher and she wants to know the influence of gender on this final test scores. The gender variable equals to 1 for girl and 0 for boy. After analysis she gets the model that: Test score=79.753+0.983gender. Which of the followings is most likely the conclusion of this result?
选项:
A. The test score is 0.983 higher for boys.
B. The test score is 0.983 higher for girls.
C. The girls’ score is 79.753.
解释:
B is correct.
考点: Dummy variable.
解析: 本题的自变量为性别,没有具体的数值,所以为虚拟变量,1代表女生,0代表男生。根据回归方程可以知道性别自变量的系数为0.983,代表的含义是在这次期末测试中女生的成绩要比男生的成绩高了0.983分,所以选择B选项。
截距79.753代表的含义是?