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Title: The table below lists the verbal and math SAT scores of 10 students selected at random. Test the ...
Post by: segrsyd on Feb 14, 2020

Question 1

The number of absences and the final grades of 9 randomly selected students from a statistics class are given below. Can you conclude that there is a correlation between the final grade and the number of absences? Use



Question 2

The table below lists the verbal and math SAT scores of 10 students selected at random. Test the hypothesis of no correlation between verbal and math SAT scores. Use



Title: The table below lists the verbal and math SAT scores of 10 students selected at random. Test the ...
Post by: yasmina on Feb 14, 2020

Answer 1

critical values ±0.883; test statistic rs ≈ -0.996; reject H0; There is enough evidence to conclude that there is a significant correlation between the final grade and the number of absences.

Answer 2

critical values ±0.648; test statistic rs ≈ -0.006; fail to reject H0; There is not enough evidence to conclude that there is a significant correlation between verbal and math SAT scores.