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Autumn & Lindsey
For our data set, we chose the senior class
accumulative GPA and their ACT score. We collected
the data by asking our classmates their ACT and
accumulative GPA. We do not believe that the
students GPA and their ACT score correlate. Our data
is a population of the senior class at Fowler High
School.
Explanatory & Response Variable
The explanatory variable: accumulative GPA
The response variable: ACT score
The explanatory variable is the independent variable.
An independent variable does not depend on any
other variables. Therefore, accumulative GPA would
be the explanatory variable because it is not affected
by any other variables.
The response variable is the dependent variable. A
dependent variables value does depend on other
variables. Therefore, ACT score would be the response
variable because the result is affected by other
variables, which, in our case would be the GPA.
Scatter Diagram
Marginal Change
Marginal change is a small addition or subtraction to
the total quantity of some variable. In other words,
marginal change is the slope. To find the marginal
change, we used the calculator.
a= .11
Our marginal change is very low; this means that our
data is not very well correlated because this number
is very far away from one.
Influential Points
The points that might influence our data is (23,2.2),
(18,1.6), and (21,4). However since our data is
moderately correlated and we have a big data set,
removing these influential points will not affect out
correlation coefficient very much and most likely will
not make our data more closely related to the trend
line.
We found our Influential points by hovering over the
points on our scatter diagram.
Coefficient of Determination
The coefficient of determination is a key output of
regression analysis. To find the coefficient of
determination, we put our data into the L1 list and L2
list and then ran a linear regression and found the r2
value.
The coefficient of determination is .434.
From this number, we can see that our data isnt very
well correlated because this number is not close to
one.
Explained & Unexplained Variation
The explained variation is the sum of the squared of
the differences between each predicted y-value and
the mean of y.
The unexplained variable is the sum of the squared of
the differences between the y-value and each ordered
pair and each corresponding predicted y-value.
The explained variation for our data set is 43%. We
may have had a low explained variation because there
are several data points are farther away from our line,
we may have a lower explained variation.
The unexplained variation for our data set is 57%. We
may have had a high unexplained variation because
many students may have had the flu or a sickness the
week of the ACT.
Lurking Variables
Some lurking variables for our data set include:
1. Some people may not have been honest with their
GPA and ACT scores
2. Some people may have said their quarter GPA and
not their accumulative GPA
3. The ACT can be taken more than once, someone
may have taken the ACT more than once, and
didnt say their best ACT score