Exercise 11.6: -------------- A multiple linear regression analysis involving 10 predictors. The overall F- test is strongly significant but none of the 10 regression coefficients are significant. The overall F-test tests the hypothesis H0: beta1=1, beta2=0, ..., beta10=10 whereas the individual t-tests each test a hypothesis about a single regression coefficient H0: beta_k=0, in the presence of the other 9 variables in the model. When the predictors are collinear, removing a single predictor will affect the regression coefficients of all remaining predictors. Therefore, the 10 tests for individual regression coefficients say nothing about the combined significance of several regression coefficients. Specifically, if the 10 predictors explain more or less the same part of the variation of the outcome, it is possible to remove one (or several) predictor(s) without substantially affecting the model fit because the remaining predictors can compensate. In the situation discussed, the outcome being the score at the final exam, and the predictors the scores on quizzes during the course, a strong collinearity is to be expected. Students tend to do generally well or less well on the quizzes, and the former category of students typically do well on the final exam.