Consider a regression model that predicts overall happiness from career satisfac

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Consider a regression model that predicts overall happiness from career satisfaction, home satisfaction, and church satisfaction, where career, home, and church are rated 1-5 and happiness is rated 1-20, with high numbers being the best: HAPPINESS = 1.635 + 0.897*CAREER + 1.764*HOME + 1.012'CHURCH. (a) If Susan's career satisfaction is a 3, her church satisfaction is a 2, and her home satisfaction is a 4, what is her overall happiness predicted to be? Round to three decimals. 13.406 (b) What is the change in happiness resulting from 1 extra unit of career satisfaction, holding all other factors constant? Give three decimals. 14.303 (c) What is the change in happiness resulting from 1 extra unit of home satisfaction, holding all other factors constant? Give three decimals. 15.170 (d) What is the change in happiness resulting from 1 extra unit of church satisfaction, holding all other factors constant? Give three decimals. 14.418 (e) If Susan can work on one area of her life (career, home, or church) and increase her satisfaction in that area by 1 unit, which area should she concentrate on in order to most Increase her overall happiness? (Another way of asking this: Susan's overall happiness is most sensitive to which of the three factors?) Church Home Career

Explanation / Answer

b) change 0.897

c)change =1.764

d)change =1.012

e)that should be home due to highest satisfaction coefficient.

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