What’s Your Malfunction?
Must be submitted for Peer Commentary by 8:00 pm Wednesday, October 25th.
Peer Commentary and Final Homework DUE at 5:00 pm Wednesday, November 1st.
Create a new GitHub repo and git-referenced Rstudio Project called “AN588_Malfunction_BUlogin”. Within that repo, create a new .Rmd
file called “BUlogin_OriginalHomeworkCode_04”. Don’t forget to add your Peer Group and instructor as collaborators, and to accept their invitations to you. Making sure to push both the markdown and knitted .html
files to your repository, do the following:
[2] The dataset from Kamilar and Cooper has in it a large number of variables related to life history and body size. For this exercise, the end aim is to fit a simple linear regression model to predict longevity (MaxLongevity_m
) measured in months from species’ brain size (Brain_Size_Species_Mean
) measured in grams. Do the following for both longevity~brain size
and log(longevity)~log(brain size)
:
- Fit the regression model and, using {ggplot2}, produce a scatterplot with the fitted line superimposed upon the data. Append the the fitted model equation to your plot (HINT: use the function
geom_text()
).
- Identify and interpret the point estimate of the slope (\(\beta_1\)), as well as the outcome of the test associated with the hypotheses H0: \(\beta_1\) = 0; HA: \(\beta_1\) ≠ 0. Also, find a 90 percent CI for the slope (\(\beta_1\)) parameter.
- Using your model, add lines for the 90 percent confidence and prediction interval bands on the plot and add a legend to differentiate between the lines.
- Produce a point estimate and associated 90 percent PI for the longevity of a species whose brain weight is 800 gm. Do you trust the model to predict observations accurately for this value of the explanatory variable? Why or why not?
- Looking at your two models, which do you think is better? Why?
Your Final Assignment for Homework 03
Your final assignment, due to me by 5:00 pm on November 1st, is to have in your
AN588_Malfunction_BUlogin repo only the following files (aside from repo basics like an
.Rproj
and
README
file):
- The FINAL PUSH of your Original Homework Code, including the five challenges you faced, as pushed to your repo by 5:00 pm on Wednesday, November 1st, an R Markdown file named BUlogin_OriginalHomeworkCode_04.
- The FINAL PUSH of the Peer Commentary made on your code, an R Markdown file named Peerlogin_PeerCommentary_BUlogin_04 or PeerGroupX_PeerCommentary_BUlogin_04.
- The FINAL PUSH of your Final Homework Code, which has taken into account any changes recommended from the Peer Commentary and notes, an R Markdown file named BUlogin_FinalHomeworkCode_04.
NOTE: If you want your homework code to look nice (beyond being very well annotated and commented), and be easy to use by others, you can check out the relatively simply example R Markdown templates in the AN588_Week_3_caschmit repo.
Please also consider consulting the following helpful guidelines on how to write effective
R Markdown documents (also available at the end of
Module 03), which go well beyond the simple formatting of the templates.