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ISBN: 9780321989178

Author: Neil A. Weiss

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 14.2, Problem 69E

Wasp Mating Systems. In the paper "Mating System and Sex Allocation in the Gregarious Parasitoid Cotesia glomerata" (Animal Behaviour, Vol. 66, pp. 259–264), H. Gu and S. Dorn reported on various aspects of the mating system and sex allocation strategy of the wasp C. glomerata. One part of the study involved the investigation of the percentage of male wasps dispersing before mating in relation to the brood sex ratio (proportion of males). The data obtained by the researchers axe on the WeissStats site.

a. Obtain a scatter plot for the data.
b. Is it reasonable to find a regression line for the data? Explain your answer.

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Solution Summary: The author explains that the scatterplot indicates that there is haphazard relation between variables and does not exhibit any linear pattern.

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