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As part of the results, your calculator will display a number known as the correlation coefficient , labeled by the variable or (You may have to change the calculator’s settings for these to be shown.) The values are an indication of the “goodness of fit” of the regression equation to the data. We more commonly use the value of instead of but the closer either value is to 1, the better the regression equation approximates the data.
Exponential regression is used to model situations in which growth begins slowly and then accelerates rapidly without bound, or where decay begins rapidly and then slows down to get closer and closer to zero. We use the command “ExpReg” on a graphing utility to fit an exponential function to a set of data points. This returns an equation of the form,
Note that:
Given a set of data, perform exponential regression using a graphing utility.
In 2007, a university study was published investigating the crash risk of alcohol impaired driving. Data from 2,871 crashes were used to measure the association of a person’s blood alcohol level (BAC) with the risk of being in an accident. [link] shows results from the study Source: Indiana University Center for Studies of Law in Action, 2007 . The relative risk is a measure of how many times more likely a person is to crash. So, for example, a person with a BAC of 0.09 is 3.54 times as likely to crash as a person who has not been drinking alcohol.
BAC | 0 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.09 |
Relative Risk of Crashing | 1 | 1.03 | 1.06 | 1.38 | 2.09 | 3.54 |
BAC | 0.11 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.19 | 0.21 |
Relative Risk of Crashing | 6.41 | 12.6 | 22.1 | 39.05 | 65.32 | 99.78 |
Use the “ExpReg” command from the STAT then CALC menu to obtain the exponential model,
Converting from scientific notation, we have:
Notice that which indicates the model is a good fit to the data. To see this, graph the model in the same window as the scatterplot to verify it is a good fit as shown in [link] :
Use the model to estimate the risk associated with a BAC of Substitute for in the model and solve for
If a 160-pound person drives after having 6 drinks, he or she is about 26.35 times more likely to crash than if driving while sober.
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