Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780073401331
Author: William Navidi Prof.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 8.1, Problem 8E
Refer to Exercise 7.
- a. Find a 95% confidence interval for the coefficient of Last FEV.
- b. Find a 98% confidence interval for the coefficient of Height.
- c. Can you conclude that β2 < – 0.08? Perform the appropriate hypothesis test.
- d. Can you conclude that β3 > 0.5? Perform the appropriate hypothesis test.
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