Derivation and Discussion of a Regression Model for Estimating the Fuel Economy of Automobiles

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Bascunana, Jose L., author.

Conference Name:

Passenger Car Meeting and Exposition (1979-06-11 : Dearborn, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1979

Summary:

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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Publisher Number:

790654

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