In: Statistics and Probability
1. Years of formal education appears to be related to income. From a sample of 60 people, b1 = .02, the standard error of estimate is 10.52 and sx 2 is 13641. Using a 5% level of significance and a hypothesis test for the slope, is there a linear relationship between the two variables?
2. To investigate whether food budget and household income are related, data was collected from 125 households and the correlation coefficient for the two variables was found to be .377. Using a 5% level of significance and a hypothesis test for the correlation coefficient, is there a linear relationship between the two variables?