The auto theft rate (number of auto thefts known to the police per 100,000 population), unemployment rate, and percent of the population consisting of adolescent and young adult males (ages 12 - 25) are presented below for a sample of twenty cities
Take auto theft rate as the dependent variable and conduct a full regression analysis for these three variables.
City Auto Theft Unemployment % Young Males
A 1500 8 10
B 1200 10 8
C 1000 9 16
D 1800 12 20
E 1000 9 12
F 800 5 8
H 600 4 7
I 900 5 6
J 1100 9 12
K 1300 10 15
L 1400 12 5
M 2000 14 14
N 1800 15 18
O 1100 9 10
P 300 5 14
Q 400 5 18
R 900 8 10
S 1000 10 20
T 1500 11 18
U 1600 16 16
Unemployment % Young Males Auto Theft .87 .26
With auto theft rate as Y, unemployment rate as X1 and percent of population young male as X2:
Y = 168.65 + (123.62) X1 + (-12.32) X2 Zy = (.93)Z1 + (-.12)Z2
R = .88
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