1. Section 11.2
Day 2

2. Confidence Interval Estimation
Whenever you reject the null hypothesis that a slope is 0, it is prudent to construct a confidence interval.

3. Confidence Interval Estimation
Whenever you reject the null hypothesis that a slope is 0, it is prudent to construct a confidence interval.
If the interval is extremely wide,

4. Confidence Interval Estimation
Whenever you reject the null hypothesis that a slope is 0, it is prudent to construct a confidence interval.
If the interval is extremely wide, due to large variation in residuals and small sample size,

5. Confidence Interval Estimation
Whenever you reject the null hypothesis that a slope is 0, it is prudent to construct a confidence interval.
If the interval is extremely wide, due to large variation in residuals and small sample size, that tells you the estimate b1 is practically useless.

6. Confidence Interval Estimation
If the interval is extremely wide, due to large variation in residuals and small sample size, that tells you the estimate b1 is practically useless.
May have “statistical significance” but no practical significance.
Don’t get swept away by the numbers.

7. Confidence Interval Form
Statistic (critical value) (standard deviation of statistic)

8. Confidence Interval For Slope
Statistic (critical value) (standard deviation of statistic)

9. Confidence Interval For Slope
Statistic (critical value) (standard deviation of statistic)
b1 t* sb1

10. Components of Confidence Interval for a Slope
How many components are there for constructing a confidence interval?

11. Components of Confidence Interval for a Slope
How many components are there for constructing a confidence interval? 3
What are the components?

12. Components of Confidence Interval for a Slope
1) Check conditions

13. Components of Confidence Interval for a Slope
1) Check conditions
2) Do computations

14. Components of Confidence Interval for a Slope
1) Check conditions
2) Do computations
3) Give interpretation in context

15. To get a capture rate equal to the advertised rate, the conditional distributions of y for fixed values of x must be:
approximately normal,
with means that lie on a line,
and standard deviations that are relatively constant across all values of x.

16. To get a capture rate equal to the advertised rate, the conditional distributions of y for fixed values of x must be approximately normal, with means that lie on a line, and standard deviations that are relatively constant across all values of x.
Thus, we must check 4 conditions.

17. First Condition Randomness: Verify you have one of these situations.
i. Single random sample from bivariate population

18. First Condition Randomness: Verify you have one of these situations.
i. Single random sample from bivariate population
ii. A set of independent random samples, one for each fixed value of the explanatory variable, x

19. First Condition Randomness: Verify you have one of these situations.
i. Single random sample from bivariate population
ii. A set of independent random samples, one for each fixed value of the explanatory variable, x
iii. Experiment with random assignment of treatments

20. Second Condition
Linearity: Make a scatterplot and check to see if the relationship looks linear.

21. Second Condition
Linearity: Make a scatterplot and check to see if the relationship looks linear.
Note: On quiz or test, you must show the scatterplot with labels. Simply saying “based on scatterplot, relationship looks linear” gets no credit.

22. Third Condition
Uniform residuals: Make a residual plot to check departures from linearity and that residuals are of uniform size across all values of x.

23. Third Condition
Uniform residuals: Make a residual plot to check departures from linearity and that residuals are of uniform size across all values of x.
Note: On quiz or test, you must show the residual plot you analyzed or no credit.

24. Fourth Condition
Normality: Make a univariate plot (dot plot, stemplot, boxplot or histogram) of the residuals to see if it’s reasonable to assume that the residuals came from a normal distribution.

25. Fourth Condition
Normality: Make a univariate plot (dot plot, stemplot, boxplot or histogram) of the residuals to see if it’s reasonable to assume that the residuals came from a normal distribution.
Note: On quiz or test, you must show the plot you analyzed with rationale—no superficial statement

26. Do Computations Confidence interval is: b1 t* sb1
Value of t* depends on:

27. Do Computations Confidence interval is: b1 t* sb1
Value of t* depends on:
the confidence level and

28. Do Computations Confidence interval is: b1 t* sb1
Value of t* depends on:
the confidence level and
the number of degrees of freedom, df, which is n – 2.

29. Do Computations

30. Do Computations

31. Do Computations

32. If your calculator does not have LinRegTInt, use
Note: For quiz/test, everyone will be required to show how they used this formula to compute the CI.
If use LinRegTInt no credit!

33. If must use ,
use LinRegTTest to calculate b1 and t.
Then use so

34. How do we determine t* ?

35. To determine t* , use Table B, t-distribution Critical Values

36. Find t* for following confidence intervals:
1) 90% with 3 df
2) 90% with 13 df
3) 95% with n = 15

37. Find t* for following confidence intervals:
1) 90% with 3 df
2.353
2) 90% with 13 df

38. Find t* for following confidence intervals:
2) 90% with 13 df
1.771
3) 95% with n = 15

39. Find t* for following confidence intervals:
3) 95% with n = 15
Note: df = n - 2
2.160
4) 95% with n = 50

40. Find t* for following confidence intervals:
95% with n = 50
df = 50 – 2 = 48
2.021

41. Give Interpretation in Context
For 95% confidence interval, you are 95% confident that the slope of the underlying linear relationship lies in the interval ( , ).
Remember to put this in context.

42. Give Interpretation in Context
By 95% confidence, we mean that out of every 100 such confidence intervals we construct from random samples, we expect the true value, , to be in 95 of them.

43. Page 763, D11 For part a, use Mars rocks data on page 737.
For predicting redness from sulfate percentage:
explanatory variable is ?
response variable is ?

44. Page 763, D11 For part a, use Mars rocks data on page 737.
For predicting redness from sulfate percentage:
explanatory variable is sulfate percentage
response variable is redness

45. Page 763, D11 For part a, use Mars rocks data on page 737. LinRegTTest
b =

46. Page 763, D11 For part a, use Mars rocks data on page 737. LinRegTTest
b =
t* = (95% CI with 3 df)

47. Page 763, D11 For part a, use Mars rocks data on page 737. LinRegTTest
b =
t* = (95% CI with 3 df)

48. Page 763, D11 For part a, use Mars rocks data on page 737.
b =
t* = (95% CI with 3 df)
± ●

49. Page 763, D11
For part a, use Mars rocks data on page 737. ±
(0.0567, )
Interpret this interval.

50. I’m 95% confident that the slope of the true
Page 763, D11
For part a, use Mars rocks data on page 737.
(0.0567, )
I’m 95% confident that the slope of the true
regression line for predicting redness
from sulfate percentage for Mars rocks
is in the interval (0.0567, ).

51. Page 763, D11
b) Use information in Display on page 754

52. Page 763, D11
b) Use information in Display on page 754
( , )
Interpret this interval.

53. Page 763, D11 b) Use information in Display 11.17 on page 754
( , )
I’m 95% confident that the slope of the true
regression line for predicting redness
from sulfate percentage for Mars soil
samples is in the interval to

54. Page 763, D11 I’m 95% confident that the slope of the true
regression line for predicting redness from
sulfate percentage for Mars soil samples is
in the interval to Because
0 is in this interval, it is possible that the
slope of the true regression line is 0.

55. Page 763, D11 c)

56. Page 763, D11 c)
For 9 df:

57. Page 763, D11 c)
For 9 df:
(0.3780, )

58. Page 763, D11 I’m 95% confident that the slope of the true
regression line for predicting redness from
sulfate percentage for both Mars rocks and
soil samples is in the interval to

59. Page 763, D11 Which interval is narrowest?
Which interval is the widest?

60. Page 763, D11
Which interval is narrowest? For combined sample of rocks and soil
Which interval is the widest? Soil samples
Why?

61. Page 763, D11
Interval for soil samples is widest because the points tend to be relatively far from the regression line.
Relate this to what you learned in Section 11.1.

62. Page 763, D11
Points further from the regression line increase the y-deviations which increase the standard error, thus increasing the margin of error.

63. Page 763, D11 The points in the combined sample cluster
relatively close to the regression line which
decrease the y-deviations. So the combined
sample has the smallest standard error and
thus narrowest interval.
Plus, the larger sample size and the wider
spread among the x’s also contribute to a
narrower confidence interval.

64. Page 763, D12

65. Page 763, D12 Because the P-value for the two-sided test
of a slope is less than 0.05, we would reject
the null hypothesis that β1 = 0.
Thus, a 95% confidence interval estimate of the slope

66. Page 763, D12 Because the P-value for the two-sided test
of a slope is less than 0.05, we would reject
the null hypothesis that β1 = 0.
Thus, a 95% confidence interval estimate of the slope does not include 0.

67. Page 769, E15

68. Page 769, E15 a(i) predicting temperature from chirp rate
(1.9924, )

69. Page 769, E15 a(i) predicting temperature from chirp rate
(1.9924, )
a(ii) predicting chirp rate from temperature
( , )

70. Page 769, E15 b. When you reverse the roles of chirp rate and
temperature, the entire regression line changes.
The unit of the slope changes from degrees
per chirp to chirps per degree. The sizes of the
residuals change too because they are measured
from a different line and from a different
direction. Further, they are measured in different
units (difference in temperature versus difference
in chirp rate). Note: The two slopes are not
reciprocals of one another.

71. Questions?