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Chapter 12: Q. 1 (page 759)

Oil and residuals Exercise 59 on page 193 (Chapter 3) examined data on the depth of small defects in the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline. Researchers compared the results of measurements on 100 defects made in the field with measurements of the same defects made in the laboratory. The figure below shows a residual plot for the least-squares regression line based on these data. Are the conditions for performing inference about the slopeβ of the population regression line met? Justify your answer.

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The equal variance requirement has not been met.

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Need to find which variance requirements have not been met.

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Explanation

There are five conditions for regression inference are: Linear, Independent, Normal, Equal variance, Random

The Equal variance requirement has not been met, because the vertical spread is larger to the right than it is to the left in the residual plot.

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