Question

Neighborhood	Economic Conditions	Political Participation
1	36.3	16.4
2	29.4	14.8
3	45.6	68.7
4	65.3	78.8
5	66.8	77.4
6	98.4	65.1
7	41.3	55.4
8	12.6	9.6
9	9.5	22.1
10	89.6	98.6
11	62.1	45.6
12	45.6	37.3
13	68.5	56.4
14	72.5	64.1
15	39.8	25.7
16	25.7	17.5
17	61.4	72.1
18	55.6	61.8
19	44.8	48.8
20	48.9	51.5
21	51.3	60.1
22	55.3	62.7

1. Assume that the correlation value in the question is representative of the correlation between these variables for all 363.786 neighborhoods in the United States. Using the information in the table below calculate the bivariate regression equation estimating the effect of economic conditions on political participation. Be sure to show your work. (20 Points)

	Economic Conditions	Political Participation
M	50.3	50.1
SD	20.1	24.9

Answer 1

*****this is just to clarify my findings..if you are interested..you can go through it...if you have any doubt regarding this you can write it in comment box.

*** here i have found that actual

variable	mean	sd
economic condition	51.20	21.9
political participation	50.48	24.19

then based on this data the regression equation be:

political participation

=

4.11 + 0.906 economic conditions