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Cats Data Linear Regression Analysis

This document summarizes a linear regression model predicting heart weight (Hwt) from body weight (Bwt) and sex (Sex) for 144 cats. It reports that body weight and the interaction of body weight and sex significantly predict heart weight based on the t-values. It also references Table 1 showing the coefficient estimates and test statistics and Figure 1 displaying a scatter plot of the data with fitted regression lines.

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Cats Data Linear Regression Analysis

This document summarizes a linear regression model predicting heart weight (Hwt) from body weight (Bwt) and sex (Sex) for 144 cats. It reports that body weight and the interaction of body weight and sex significantly predict heart weight based on the t-values. It also references Table 1 showing the coefficient estimates and test statistics and Figure 1 displaying a scatter plot of the data with fitted regression lines.

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Estimate

2.9813
2.6364
4.1654
1.6763

(Intercept)
Bwt
SexM
Bwt:SexM

Std. Error
1.8428
0.7759
2.0618
0.8373

 

t value
1.62
3.40
2.02
2.00

Pr( t )
0.1080
0.0009
0.0453
0.0472

Table 1: Linear regression model for cats data.


2

2.5

3.5

20

Hwt

15

10

2.5

3.5

4
Bwt

Figure 1: The cats data from package MASS.

The Cats Data


Consider the cats regression example from Venables & Ripley (1997). The data
frame contains measurements of heart and body weight of 144 cats (47 female, 97
male).
A linear regression model of heart weight by sex and gender can be fitted in R using
the command
> lm1 = lm(Hwt ~ Bwt * Sex, data = cats)
> lm1
Call:
lm(formula = Hwt ~ Bwt * Sex, data = cats)
Coefficients:
(Intercept)
2.981

Bwt
2.636

SexM
-4.165

Bwt:SexM
1.676

Tests for significance of the coefficients are shown in Table 1, a scatter plot including
the regression lines is shown in Figure 1.

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