Which Has the Smaller Heat of Hydrogenation, (E)-2-Pentene or (Z)-2-Pentene

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Essay

Which has the smaller heat of hydrogenation, (E)-2-pentene or (Z)-2-pentene? What is the structural origin of this difference?

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Definitions:

Regression Analysis

The statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables, often used to predict a dependent variable from one or more independent variables.

Indicator Variables

Variables in statistics used to represent categorical data with values indicating the presence or absence of a characteristic.

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

A statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples to understand if at least one of the sample means significantly differs from the others.

Type I Error

The faulted rejection of an authentic null hypothesis, also termed as a "false positive."