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 - Chapter 5 Exercises - Page 155: 5.34a

Answer

$b = r\frac{s_{y}}{s_{x}} = 0.5 \frac{3.1}{2.7} = 0.574$ $a = \bar y - b \bar x = 64.3 - 0.574 \times 69.9 = 24.1774$ $\hat y = 24.1774 +0.574x$ This implies that for each unit increase in height of a wife, height of husband will increase by 0.574

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