A Study Was Undertaken to Assess the Quality of Cheese

question 24

Multiple Choice

A study was undertaken to assess the quality of cheese as determined by a panel of taste testers.The tasters rated samples of cheese as being acceptable or not acceptable.Those same samples of cheese were analyzed with respect to several variables,one of which was the untransformed concentration of lactic acid,designated as Lactic.A logistic regression was fitted relating the log odds that the cheese was acceptable to the explanatory variable Lactic.The following partial computer output is provided. What is the approximate 90% confidence interval estimate for the true slope of the logistic regression model?

• A)(0.152,1.014)
• B)(1.259,2.821)
• C)(-0.222,3.982)
• D)(0.230,1.037)
• E)This cannot be determined without knowing the degrees of freedom.

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