Fundamentals of Statistics (5th Edition)
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Author: Michael Sullivan III
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Chapter 4.2, Problem 15AYU
Age Gap at Marriage Is there a relation between the age difference between husband/wives and the percent of a country that is literate. Researchers found the least-squares regression between age difference (husband age minus wife age), y, and literacy rate (percent of the population that is literate), x, is
Source: Xu Zhang and Solomon W. Polachek, State university or New York at Binghamton “The Husband-Wife Age Gap at First Marriage: A Cross-Country Analysis”
- a. Interpret the slope.
- b. Does it make sense to interpret the y-intercept? Explain.
- c. Predict the age difference between husband/wife in a country where the literacy rate is 25 percent.
- d. Would it make sense to use this model to predict the age difference between husband/wife in a country where the literacy rate is 10 percent? Explain.
- e. The literacy rate in the United States is 99 percent and the age difference between husbands and wives is 2 years. Is this age difference above or below the average age difference among all countries whose literacy rate is 99 percent?
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