Accidents and Rain a Statistician Investigating the Relationship Between the Amount of the Amount

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Essay

Accidents and Rain
A statistician investigating the relationship between the amount of rain (in inches)and the number of automobile accidents gathered data on accidents in her city for 10 randomly selected days throughout the year.The results are shown below. ​ ​
-{Accidents and Rain Narrative} What does the slope of the least squares regression line tell you?

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Definitions:

Ordinal Data

Refers to a type of data which is categorized into ordered levels but the differences between the levels are not necessarily consistent or measurable.

Interval Data

A type of data that not only categorizes variables but also quantifies the differences between these categories, where the intervals between values are interpretable.

Ratio Data

A type of quantitative data that not only offers order and equal intervals between values but also has a natural zero point, enabling ratios to be calculated.

Nominal Data

Data categorized into distinct groups without any inherent order or ranking among the categories.