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- a. How many degrees of freedom are there for the Student’s t statistics?
- b. Find a 98% confidence interval for β1.
- c. Find a 98% confidence interval for β0.
- d. Someone claims that the frequency decreases by 0.6 Hz if the damping ratio increases by 1. Use the given output to perform a hypothesis test to determine whether this claim is plausible.
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