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       log:  D:\My Documents\My Downloads\Econ 170\chapter 9, question 1.log
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 opened on:   1 Nov 2005, 09:33:35

. use "E:\Schmidt\(02) Stata Format\buscost.dta", clear

. regress totalcost rvm

      Source |       SS       df       MS              Number of obs =     246
-------------+------------------------------           F(  1,   244) = 1932.98
       Model |  8.0107e+10     1  8.0107e+10           Prob > F      =  0.0000
    Residual |  1.0112e+10   244  41442156.6           R-squared     =  0.8879
-------------+------------------------------           Adj R-squared =  0.8875
       Total |  9.0219e+10   245   368239382           Root MSE      =  6437.6

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   totalcost |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf. Interval]
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         rvm |   5.017975    .114134    43.97   0.000     4.793161    5.242789
       _cons |  -1519.416   512.9581    -2.96   0.003    -2529.807   -509.0255
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. generate float logtcost= log(totalcost)

. generate float logrvm= log(rvm)

. regress logtcost logrvm

      Source |       SS       df       MS              Number of obs =     246
-------------+------------------------------           F(  1,   244) = 5720.37
       Model |   459.98916     1   459.98916           Prob > F      =  0.0000
    Residual |  19.6206326   244  .080412429           R-squared     =  0.9591
-------------+------------------------------           Adj R-squared =  0.9589
       Total |  479.609793   245  1.95759099           Root MSE      =  .28357

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    logtcost |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf. Interval]
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      logrvm |   1.118263   .0147853    75.63   0.000     1.089139    1.147386
       _cons |   .4240689   .1078815     3.93   0.000     .2115712    .6365667
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. log close
       log:  D:\My Documents\My Downloads\Econ 170\chapter 9, question 1.log
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 closed on:   1 Nov 2005, 09:37:47
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