In: Statistics and Probability
A chemical engineer is investigating the effect of process operating temperature on product yield. The study results in the following data:
Temperature | Yield | |
100 | 56.17 | |
110 | 72.28 | |
120 | 75.68 | |
130 | 73.30 | |
140 | 90.95 | |
150 | 90.21 | |
160 | 103.68 | |
170 | 114.28 | |
180 | 123.66 | |
190 |
130.66 |
You can use Minitab to answer the following questions. However, you should be able to calculate the slope and intercept of the least squares regression model by hand, which requires only the means and standard deviations of X and Y, and the correlation coefficient (here r = 0.9829).