Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
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Author: William Navidi Prof.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7.4, Problem 17E
An engineer wants to determine the spring constant for a particular spring. She hangs various weights on one end of the spring and measures the length of the spring each time. A
- a. Is the model y = β0 + β1x an empirical model or a physical law?
- b. Should she transform the variables to try to make the relationship more linear, or would it be better to redo the experiment? Explain.
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