An expert witness in a case of alleged racial discrimination in a state university school of nursing
introduced a regression of the determinants of Salary of each professor for each year during an
8-year period (n = 423) with the following results, with dependent variable Year (year in which
the salary was observed) and predictors YearHire (year when the individual was hired), Race (1 if
individual is black, 0 otherwise), and Rank (1 if individual is an assistant professor, 0 otherwise).
Interpret these results.
Variable Coefficient t p
Intercept −3,816,521 −29.4 .000
Year 1,948 29.8 .000
YearHire −826 −5.5 .000
Race −2,093 −4.3 .000
Rank −6,438 −22.3 .000
R2 = 0.811 R2
adj
= 0.809 s = 3,318