Tutorial 7
Tutorial 7
Tutorial 7
1. Fitting a straight line to a set of data yields the following prediction line:
3. Shipments (in tons) of welded tube by an aluminium producer are shown in the
following table.
Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Tons 2 3 6 10 8 7 12 14 14 18 19
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(e) Use the equation to forecast tube shipments for year 12.
4. A medical statistician wanted to examine the relationship between the amount of
sunshine in hours, and incidence of skin cancer. As an experiment he found the
number of skin cancers detected per 100,000 of population and the average daily
sunshine in eight counties around the country. These data are shown below.