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Finding and Using the Regression Equation for Predicting Values

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For the following data:
a) find the regression equation for the predicting y from x.
b) use the regression equation to find a predicted y for each x
c) find the difference between the actual y value and the predicted y value for each individual, square the differences and add the squared values to obtain ss residual.
d) calculate the Pearson Correlation for these data. Use r square and ssy to compute ss residual with equation 15.18.

x y
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1 2
4 7
3 5
2 1
5 14
3 7
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