{"id":229708,"date":"2018-09-17T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/mth-540-week-4-learning-team-assignment-problem-set\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:36:22","slug":"mth-540-week-4-learning-team-assignment-problem-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/mth-540-week-4-learning-team-assignment-problem-set\/","title":{"rendered":"MTH 540 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Problem Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case Study Chapter 9\t\t1. Using your intuition, classify the following (x, y) pairs as having a weak correlation (0<r< 0.5) a moderate correlation or a (.5 <r < 0.8), strong correlation (.8<r<1.0)\t2. Now, use a technology tool to find the correlation coefficient for each pair in Exercise 1. Compare your results to those obtained by intuition.\t4. Use the results of Exercise 3 to predict the following.\u00a0\t\t(a) The neck circumference of a man whose weight is 180 pounds.\t(b) The abdomen circumference of a man whose hip circumference is 100 centimeters\t5. Are there pairs of measurements that have stronger correlation coefficients than 0.85? Use a technology tool and intuition to reach a conclusion\tCase Study Chapter 10\t1. In 1999, how many people in the United States aged 16\"\ufffd24 died as a result of a motor vehicle crash?\t2. Assuming the variables region and age are independent, in which region did the number of motor vehicle fatalities for the 16\"\ufffd24 age group exceed the expected number of fatalities?\t3. Assuming the variables region and age are independent, in which region did the number of motor vehicle fatalities for the 25\"\ufffd34 age group exceed the expected number of fatalities?\t4. At \u03b1=0.05 perform a chi-square test to determine whether the variables region and age are independent. What can you conclude?\t5. Compare the distribution of the sample of motor vehicle fatalities from the eastern United States with the national distribution. What can you conclude?\t6. Compare the distribution of the sample of motor vehicle fatalities from the central United States with the national distribution. What can you conclude?\t7. Compare the distribution of the sample of motor vehicle fatalities from the western United States with the national distribution. What can you conclude?\t8. In addition to the variables used in this case study, what other variables do you think are important considerations when studying the distribution of motor vehicle fatalities?\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case Study Chapter 9 1. Using your intuition, classify the following (x, y) pairs as having a weak correlation (0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}