13.10 Learning Objectives Revisited
Learning Objectives
As a result of completing this chapter, you will be able to do the following:
- Identify situations where simple linear regression should be used (Section 13.1).
- Explain the main idea of the method of least squares (Section 13.2).
- Calculate the least-squares fitted line (Section 13.2).
- Calculate and interpret the correlation coefficient r (Section 13.5).
- Calculate and interpret the coefficient of determination r2 (Section 13.6).
- Explain the terms in a simple linear regression model (Section 13.7).
- Conduct a [latex]t[/latex] test and obtain a [latex]t[/latex] confidence interval for the slope parameter [latex]\beta_1[/latex] (Section 13.8).
- Explain the difference between confidence intervals and prediction intervals (Section 13.9).
- Obtain a confidence interval for the conditional mean and a prediction interval for a single response (Section 13.9).
