Prehistoric pottery vessels are usually found as sherds (broken pieces) and are carefully reconstructed if enough sherds can be found. An archaeological study provides data relating x = body diamete in centimeters and y = height in centimeters of prehistoric vessels reconstructed from sherds found at a prehistoric site. The following Minitab printout provides an analysis of the data. Predictor Coef SE Coef Constant -0.209 2.429 -0.09 0.929 Diameter 0.7689 0.1471 5.66 0.002 S - 4.07980 R-Sq 88.98 For the least-squares line ŷ = a bx, what is the value of the constant a? What is the value of the slope b? (Note: The slope is the coefficient of the predictor variable.) Write the equation of the least-squares line. a = b = The P-value for a two-tailed test corresponding to each coefficient is listed under P. The t value corresponding to the coefficient is listed under T. What is the P-value of the slope? Recall that the t value and resulting P-value of the slope b equal the t value and resulting P-value of the corresponding correlation coefficient r. To find the value of the sample correlation coefficient r, take the square root of the "R-Sq" value shown in the display. What is the value of r? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)

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Prehistoric pottery vessels are usually found as sherds (broken pieces) and are carefully reconstructed if enough sherds can be found. An archaeological study provides data relating x = body diameter
in centimeters and y = height in centimeters of prehistoric vessels reconstructed from sherds found at a prehistoric site. The following Minitab printout provides an analysis of the data.
Predictor
Сoef
SE Coef
T
P
Constant
-0.209
2.429
-0.09
0.929
Diameter
0.7689
0.1471
5.66
0.002
S
4.07980
R-Sq
88.9%
%3D
For the least-squares line ŷ = a + bx, what is the value of the constant a? What is the value of the slope b? (ote: The slope is the coefficient of the predictor variable.) Write the equation
of the least-squares line.
a =
b =
+
The P-value for a two-tailed test corresponding to each coefficient is listed under P. The t value corresponding to the coefficient is listed under T. What is the P-value of the slope?
Recall that the t value and resulting P-value of the slope b equal thet value and resulting P-value of the corresponding correlation coefficient r. To find the value of the sample correlation
coefficient r, take the square root of the "R-Sq" value shown in the display. What is the value of r? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
Transcribed Image Text:Prehistoric pottery vessels are usually found as sherds (broken pieces) and are carefully reconstructed if enough sherds can be found. An archaeological study provides data relating x = body diameter in centimeters and y = height in centimeters of prehistoric vessels reconstructed from sherds found at a prehistoric site. The following Minitab printout provides an analysis of the data. Predictor Сoef SE Coef T P Constant -0.209 2.429 -0.09 0.929 Diameter 0.7689 0.1471 5.66 0.002 S 4.07980 R-Sq 88.9% %3D For the least-squares line ŷ = a + bx, what is the value of the constant a? What is the value of the slope b? (ote: The slope is the coefficient of the predictor variable.) Write the equation of the least-squares line. a = b = + The P-value for a two-tailed test corresponding to each coefficient is listed under P. The t value corresponding to the coefficient is listed under T. What is the P-value of the slope? Recall that the t value and resulting P-value of the slope b equal thet value and resulting P-value of the corresponding correlation coefficient r. To find the value of the sample correlation coefficient r, take the square root of the "R-Sq" value shown in the display. What is the value of r? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
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