Chapter 3: Q.41 (page 191)
Acid rain Refer to Exercise . Would it be appropriate to use the regression line to predict pH after months? Justify your answer.
Short Answer
pHvalue after months is an extrapolation of the relationship.
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Chapter 3: Q.41 (page 191)
Acid rain Refer to Exercise . Would it be appropriate to use the regression line to predict pH after months? Justify your answer.
pHvalue after months is an extrapolation of the relationship.
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The risks of obesity A study observes a large group of people over a -year period. The goal is to see if overweight and obese people are more likely to die during the study than people who weigh less. Such studies can be misleading because obese people are more likely to be inactive
and poor.
(a) What are the explanatory and response variables in the study?
(b) If the study finds a strong association between these variables, can we conclude that increased
weight causes a greater risk of dying? Why or why not?
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final-exam scores have mean and standard deviation Professor Friedman has lost Julie鈥檚 final exam but knows that her total before the exam was He decides to predict her final-exam score from her pre-exam total.
(a) Find the equation for the appropriate least-squares regression line for Professor Friedman鈥檚 prediction. Interpret the slope of this line in context.
(b) Use the regression line to predict Julie鈥檚 final exam score.
(c) Julie doesn鈥檛 think this method accurately predicts how well she did on the final exam. Determine Use this result to argue that her actual score could have been much higher (or much lower) than the predicted value.
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Make a graph that shows the distribution of weights of these diamonds. Describe the shape of the distribution and any outliers. Use numerical measures appropriate for the shape to describe the center and spread.
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(a) very little association.
(b) a weak negative association.
(c) a strong negative association.
(d) a weak positive association.
(e) a strong positive association.
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