AP Statistics – Chapter 3

-Scatterplot and Correlation

-Least-Squares Regression

Topic Questions:

1) Describe how to find outliers in (a) a data set, in (b) a regression setting?
2) Which is usually of greater interest, the LSRL slope or the LSRL y-intercept? Why?
3) What name do we give to r? What does r mean and how do we compute it?
4) What name do we give to r2 and what does r2 mean?
5) Is the correlation coefficient affected by choice of units?
6) Are the slope and y-intercept affected by choice of units?
7) Is the correlation coefficient affected by choice of which variable is x and which is y?
8) Are the slope and y-intercept affected by choice of which is the explanatory and which is the
response variable?
9) Describe to methods to compute the slope and y-intercept of a LSRL.
10) What is a residual? How does one make a residual plot?
11) Give several examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ residual plots and what these graphs tell us.
12) Are the terms ‘regression outliers’ and ‘influential observations’ synonyms? Explain.
13) Interpret b0 and b1.