Income and Height Narrative

question 17

Essay

Income and Height Narrative
Do tall men earn more than short ones? An economist collected the data shown below for 25 men, where the annual income (y) in thousands of dollars and the height of the income earner (x) in cm.
-Refer to Income and Height Narrative. Do the data present sufficient evidence to indicate that annual income and height of income earner are linearly related? Use the t test at the 5% level of significance.

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Definitions:

Statistical Inference

The method of applying data analysis techniques to infer characteristics of a fundamental probability distribution.

Census

A complete enumeration of a population or a group at a point in time with respect to various characteristics.

Categorical Data

Data that can be divided into groups or categories that do not necessarily have a logical order.

Numeric

Pertaining to numbers; involving or constituting numbers.