Is the Data Point, P, an Outlier, an Influential Point $\hat { y } = 8 + 5 x$

question 169

Multiple Choice

Is the data point, P, an outlier, an influential point, both, or neither?
-The regression equation for a set of paired data is $\hat { y } = 8 + 5 x$ . The correlation coefficient for the data is $0.9$ . A new data point, $\mathrm { P } ( 11,76 )$ , is added to the set.

• A) Influential point
• B) Outlier
• C) Both
• D) Neither