EBK STATISTICAL REASONING FOR EVERYDAY
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Author: Triola
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Chapter 5.1, Problem 8E
Does It Make Sense? For Exercises 5–8, determine whether the statement makes sense (or is clearly true) or does not make sense (or is clearly false). Explain clearly; not all of these have definitive answers, so your explanation is more important than your chosen answer.
- 8. Incomes. The distribution of annual incomes of U.S. adults is a
normal distribution .
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section 4.1 #30
In Exercises 25–30, determine whether the association between the two variables is positive or negative.
Weekly ice cream sales and weekly average temperature
Q. Table gives data on gold prices, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Index for the United States for the period 1974 –2006. The NYSE Index includes most of the stocks listed on the NYSE, some 1500-plus.
a. Plot in the same scattergram gold prices, CPI, and the NYSE Index.
b. An investment is supposed to be a hedge against inflation if its price and /or rate of return at least keeps pace with inflation. To test this hypothesis, suppose you decide to fit the following model, assuming the scatterplot in (a) suggests that this is appropriate:
Gold pricet = β1 + β2 CPIt + ut
NYSE indext = β1 + β2 CPIt + ut
Note that if beta2 = 1 the response exactly grows with CPI
Thank you!
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EBK STATISTICAL REASONING FOR EVERYDAY
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