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the downward trend in smoking you saw in the last exercise is good news for the health of babies but will it ever stopa
logs not logarithms the value of a log is based on the number of board feet of lumber the log may contain a board foot
researchers studying how a cars fuel efficiency varies with its speed drove a compact car 200 miles at various speeds
orange production the table below shows that as the number of oranges on a tree increases the fruit tends to get
years to live 2003insurance companies and other organizations use actuarial tables to estimate the remaining life-spans
a 1996 study examined the growth of grapefruit trees in texas determining the average trunk diameter in inches for
its often difficult to find the ideal model for situations in which the data are strongly curved the table below shows
human development index in given exercise we saw that the united nations development programme undp uses the human
human development index revisited in exercise 35 we examined the relationship between loggdppc and hdi for 172
tour de france 2007 we met the tour de france data set in chapter 2 in just checking one hundred years ago the fastest
look once more at the data from the tour de france in exercise 32 we looked at the whole history of the race but now
residuals suppose you have fit a linear model to some data and now take a look at the residuals for each of the
gas mileageas the example in the chapter indicates one of the important factors determining a cars fuel efficiency is
in a chance magazine article summer 2005 danielle vasilescu and howard wainer used data from the united nations center
gas mileage revisited let s try the re-expressed variable fuel consumption gal100 mi to examine the fuel efficiency of
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treasury bills the 3-month treasury bill interest rate is watched by investors and economists heres a scatterplot of
gdp the scatterplot shows the gross domestic product gdp of the united states in billions of dollars plotted against
better gdp model consider again the post-1950 trend in us gdp we examined in given exercise here are a regression and
pressure scientist robert boyle examined the relationship between the volume in which a gas is contained and the
brakes the table below shows stopping distances in feet for a car tested 3 times at each of 5 speeds we hope to create
more unusual points each of the following scatterplots shows a cluster of points and one stray point for each answer
whats the cause suppose a researcher studying health issues measures blood pressure and the percentage of body fat for
whats the effect a researcher studying violent behavior in elementary-school children asks the children s parents how