In: Statistics and Probability
listed below are the numbers of forest fires (in thousands) and the acres that were burned (in hundred thousands) during a year.
x 70 65 58 48 83 65 56 42
y 28 41 22 27 53 19 30 18
find the value of the linear correlation coefficient r and use a significance level of a=0.05 to determine whether there is a significant linear correlation between the two variables.
Find the best predicted value (including units) for the number of acres burned given that there were 60 thousand fires.