Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780073401331
Author: William Navidi Prof.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7, Problem 15SE
Refer to Exercise 14. Someone wants to compute a 95% confidence interval for the
- i. Yes, it can be computed from the MINITAB output.
- ii. No, we also need to know the rainfall values that were used to compute the least-squares line.
- iii. No, we also need to know the runoff values that were used to compute the least-squares line.
- iv. No, we also need to know both the rainfall and the runoff values that were used to compute the least-squares line.
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