Describing Relationships [The Practice of Statistics- Chapter 3]

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regression line

A(n) ________ relating y to x has an equation of the form.

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Correlation

________ makes no distinction between explanatory and response variables.

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Extrapolation

________ is the use of a regression line for prediction outside the interval of values of the explanatory variable x used to obtain the line.

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statistical calculation

An observation is influential for a(n) ________ if removing it would change the results.

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doesnt guarantee

A value of r close to 1 or −1 ________ a linear relationship between two variables.

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slope

B is the ________, the amount by which y is predicted to change when x increases by one unit.

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standard deviation

Standardizing a variable converts its mean to 0 and its ________ to 1.

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quantitative variables

A scatterplot shows the relationship between two ________ measured on the same individuals.

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overall pattern

An outlier is an observation that lies outside the ________.

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least squares

The ________ regression line of y on x is the line that makes the sum of the squared residuals as small as possible.

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Residual plots

________ help us assess whether a linear model is appropriate.

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correlation itself

The ________ has no unit of measure.

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Correlation

________ only measures the strength of a linear relationship between two variables, never curved relationships.

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regression line

A(n) ________ is a model for the data, much like density curves.

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least squares

The mean of the ________ residual is always 0.

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Correlation

________ requires that both variables be quantitative.

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regression line

A(n) ________ summarizes the relationship between two variables, but only when one of the variables helps explain or predict the other.

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Correlation

________ and regression lines describe only linear relationships.

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regression line

A(n) ________ is a line that describes how a response variable y changes as an explanatory variable x changes.

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Correlation

________ indicates the direction of a linear relationship by its sign: r> 0 for a positive association and r <0 for a negative association.

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To describe a scatterplot, follow the basic strategies of data analysis

look for patterns and important departures from those patterns

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IMPORTANT

Not all relationships have a clear direction that we can describe as a positive or negative association

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Correlation indicates the direction of a linear relationship by its sign

r > 0 for a positive association and r < 0 for a negative association

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Like mean and standard deviation, the correlation isnt resistant

r is affected by outliers

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residual = observed y

predicted y

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= y

y-hat

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