Anyone who has been outdoors on a summer evening has probably heard crickets. Did you know that it is possible to use the cricket as a thermometer? Crickets tend to chirp more frequently as temperatures increase. This phenomenon was studied in detail by George W. Pierce, a physics professor at Harvard. In the following data, x is a random variable representing chirps per second and y is a random variable representing temperature (°F). 17.1 82.0 21.0 15.1 17.6 84.7 19.0 17.5 15.5 14.7 y 87.8 71.4 94.1 81.4 75.2 69.7 15.4 16.2 15.0 17.2 16.0 17.0 14.4 69.4 83,3 79.6 82.6 80.6 83.5 76.3 Find x, and y. Then find the equation of the least-squares line ý = a + bx. (Round your answer to four decimal places.) y = Find the value of the coefficient of determination r2. What percentage of the variation in y can be explained by the corresponding variation in x and the least-squares line? What percentage is unexplained? (Round your answer for r to four decimal places. Round your answers for the percentages to two decimal place.) explained % unexplained % What is the predicted tempurature when x = 19.8 chirps per second? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) °F
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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