Real estate investors would like to develop a regression model to predict the price of a house based on its characteristics (size, number of bedrooms, style, and so on). They have collected data on 88 houses sold in Portland, Oregon during the period from March 2018 to November 2018. The variables include price (house price in thousands of dollars), lot size (size of the lot in square feet), sqrft (size of the house in square feet), bdrms (number of bedrooms), and colonial (a dummy variable coded as 1 if the house is colonial style and 0 otherwise).
The Excel output for the following model (Model 1) is given below:
Model 1: price = intercept + lotsize + sqrft + bdrms + colonial
ANOVA:
MS
Regression: 620279
Residual: 917855
Total: 1539134
Coefficients:
Standard Error
t Stat
P-Value
Intercept: 24.127 0.002 0.124
lotsize: 11.004 0.251 0.000
sqrft: 13.716 0.251 0.000
bdrms: 9.515 0.251 0.000
colonial: 14.637 0.251 0.000
Use Model 1 to answer the following parts:
Interpret the coefficient of the variable colonial.
The coefficient of the variable colonial is 14.637. This means that, holding all other variables constant, the mean price difference between houses of colonial style and houses of another style is $14,637.
The mean price will increase by $14,637 for a one-unit increase in the variable "colonial", holding all other variables constant.
What percentage of the variation in house price has been explained by the regression model?