The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 5 - Regression - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 134: 5.4a

Answer

Coral Growth Mean = 2.52 , S.D = 0.51 Avg summer sea surface temp: Mean = 30.28, S.D = 0.43 r = -0.864 y = -2.4609x + 36.471

Work Step by Step

Calculate Mean and S.D using Excel average and stdev.S functions. Then create a scatterplot in Excel and from option, display line and equation on the chart. Calculate r in minitab from Statistics and then correlation.
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