In: Statistics and Probability
You have collected data on the rate of pollination by an endangered pollinators in Denver. Your question is if the mean rate of pollination on native vs. non-native plant species differs. To do so, you monitored trips to different size patches of plants (native/non-native), from 10% of each to 90% of each. You did this for 10 different groups of each plant type, and then plotting a linear regression. Is that an appropriate design? Why or why not?
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given data:
This design is appropriate.
Estimation of related variables can be found out using a regression line graph. Here we want to be able to predict the rate of pollination of a pollinator by using the data of distribution of native vs non-native species. This can be done by collecting data on variables of the linear regression graph. For this we would need two- variables - Rate of pollination for each plant type (native vs non-native) and Distribution % of each plant type covering a broad range (preferably from very low to low to moderate to high to very high). Collectin of these data will help us get a reliable information of the relation between these two.
The data collected is in the right direction . Distribution percentage of native vs non-native species varies from low to high. This can be easily used to plot a relation with rate of pollination in a regression graph. In addition to that, the sampling of 10 groups of each plant type helps to minimize the sampling error and bias.
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