Congress voting on women's issues. The American Economic Review (March 2008) published research on how the gender mix of a U.S. legislator’s children can influence the legislator’s votes in Congress. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) uses voting records of each member of Congress to compute an AAUW score, where higher scores indicate more favorable voting for women’s rights. The researcher wants to use the number of daughters a legislator has to predict the legislator's AAUW score.
a. In this study, identify the dependent and independent variables.
b. Explain why a probabilistic model is more appropriate than a deterministic model.
c. Write the equation of the straight-line, probabilistic model.
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