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Derivation and Discussion of a Regression Model for Estimating the Fuel Economy of Automobiles
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This paper presents a discussion on the functional form (based on a theoretical analysis) of a regression model for estimating the fuel economy of motor vehicles. The statistical analysis tests the data for heteroskedasticity, investigates the use of different combinations of explanatory variables, discusses multi-collinearity, and determines the elasticities of fuel economy with respect to the various explanatory variables. Also, the analysis shows that the regression model can be treated as a case of restricted coefficients.
The results of the statistical analysis--mainly the high value of the corrected coefficient of determination, and the very high values of the test statistics of all the coefficients of the regression--indicate that the selected model is satisfactory for the population represented by the given data.
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Bascunana, J., "Derivation and Discussion of a Regression Model for Estimating the Fuel Economy of Automobiles," SAE Technical Paper 790654, 1979, https://doi.org/10.4271/790654.Also In
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