Oil Quality and Price

question 46

Essay

Oil Quality and Price
Quality of oil is measured in API gravity degrees--the higher the degrees API, the higher the quality. The table shown below is produced by an expert in the field who believes that there is a relationship between quality and price per barrel.

A partial Minitab output follows:




-{Oil Quality and Price Narrative} Which interval in the previous two questions is narrower: the confidence interval estimate of the expected value of y or the prediction interval for the same given value of x (10 years)and same confidence level? Why?

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Definitions:

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