[Stata Program] use http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/data/gpa regress greq grev, beta predict rgreq, residual regress gpa grev, beta predict resgpa, residual correlate gpa grev greq rgreq resgpa, means regress gpa rgreq, beta regress resgpa rgreq, beta regress gpa grev greq, beta [Stata Output] regress greq grev, beta Source | SS df MS Number of obs = 30 ---------+------------------------------ F( 1, 28) = 7.86 Model | 15017.378 1 15017.378 Prob > F = 0.0091 Residual | 53529.2886 28 1911.76031 R-squared = 0.2191 ---------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared = 0.1912 Total | 68546.6667 29 2363.67816 Root MSE = 43.724 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ greq | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| Beta ---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------- grev | .2740564 .0977822 2.803 0.009 .4680625 _cons | 407.6595 56.82089 7.174 0.000 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ predict rgreq, residual regress gpa grev, beta Source | SS df MS Number of obs = 30 ---------+------------------------------ F( 1, 28) = 14.30 Model | 3.52782074 1 3.52782074 Prob > F = 0.0008 Residual | 6.90684591 28 .246673068 R-squared = 0.3381 ---------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared = 0.3144 Total | 10.4346666 29 .359816091 Root MSE = .49666 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ gpa | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| Beta ---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------- grev | .0042005 .0011107 3.782 0.001 .5814521 _cons | .8966725 .6454345 1.389 0.176 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ predict resgpa, residual correlate gpa grev greq rgreq resgpa, means (obs=30) Variable | Mean Std. Dev. Min Max ----------+---------------------------------------------------- gpa | 3.313333 .5998467 2.5 4.3 grev | 575.3333 83.03441 480 720 greq | 565.3333 48.61767 500 655 rgreq | -3.18e-07 42.96321 -52.02029 100.7203 resgpa | -2.24e-09 .4880237 -.8789944 .8560849 | gpa grev greq rgreq resgpa ---------+--------------------------------------------- gpa | 1.0000 grev | 0.5815 1.0000 greq | 0.6111 0.4681 1.0000 rgreq | 0.3836 0.0000 0.8837 1.0000 resgpa | 0.8136 0.0000 0.4167 0.4715 1.0000 regress gpa rgreq, beta Source | SS df MS Number of obs = 30 ---------+------------------------------ F( 1, 28) = 4.83 Model | 1.53550517 1 1.53550517 Prob > F = 0.0364 Residual | 8.89916147 28 .317827195 R-squared = 0.1472 ---------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared = 0.1167 Total | 10.4346666 29 .359816091 Root MSE = .56376 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ gpa | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| Beta ---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------- rgreq | .0053559 .0024367 2.198 0.036 .3836068 _cons | 3.313333 .1029283 32.191 0.000 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ regress resgpa rgreq, beta Source | SS df MS Number of obs = 30 ---------+------------------------------ F( 1, 28) = 8.00 Model | 1.53550514 1 1.53550514 Prob > F = 0.0085 Residual | 5.37134068 28 .191833596 R-squared = 0.2223 ---------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared = 0.1945 Total | 6.90684583 29 .238167097 Root MSE = .43799 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ resgpa | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| Beta ---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------- rgreq | .0053559 .0018931 2.829 0.009 .4715044 _cons | -5.33e-10 .0799653 0.000 1.000 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ regress gpa grev greq, beta Source | SS df MS Number of obs = 30 ---------+------------------------------ F( 2, 27) = 12.73 Model | 5.06332584 2 2.53166292 Prob > F = 0.0001 Residual | 5.37134081 27 .198938548 R-squared = 0.4852 ---------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared = 0.4471 Total | 10.4346666 29 .359816091 Root MSE = .44603 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ gpa | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| Beta ---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------- grev | .0027326 .0011288 2.421 0.022 .378269 greq | .0053559 .0019278 2.778 0.010 .434094 _cons | -1.286698 .9765207 -1.318 0.199 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------