WEEK 15: STATISTICS EXTRA CREDIT: CORRELATION & REGRESSION

1. Save the File with your Name in it, ie 220_W15EC_TEyster.docx

2. Make sure it is a Word Doc or PDF file to ensure readability.
3. Answer all parts in complete sentences and show all work or explain how you got the values.

Student Learning Outcomes

 The student will construct the line of best fit between two variables.
 The student will evaluate the relationship between two variables to determine if that relationship is
significant.

Data to be used is randomly selected from: height and femur lengths of male patients:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177158/

Thiesen, D. M., Prange, F., Berger-Groch, J., Ntalos, D., Petersik, A., Hofstätter, B., Rueger, J. M., Klatte,
T. O., & Hartel, M. J. (2018). Femoral antecurvation-A 3D CT Analysis of 1232 adult femurs. PloS
one, 13(10), e0204961. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204961

Instructions
The Desmos site below is set up to do all the randomization and calculations
for you:

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/9rdnyapprt
Click the crossed lines button at the top left a few times to get a new randomized sample from
the data set. Don’t forget you can also change colors with the gear icon.

Notice how the Best Fit Line changes as the plotted points change. Each random sample will
also have a different correlation coefficient.
 Each point represents one of the male patients that was randomly chosen to be a
part of your sample. The x-coordinate represents the height in centimeters, and the
y-coordinate represents the length of the femur in millimeters.
What is the link to your randomized data in
Desmos? (Use the button that looks like this: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ptzxbtwxko
, not the web address)

Use the
magnifying glass
on the Dot
Plot to have the
best zoom of the
graph.

Export an image
of the graph with
both the Dot
Plot and Best
Fit Line.

Input the calculated values into the table. Round each value to two decimal places.

1. m = -0.932813

2. b = 572.835

3. Equation:  Y=-0.932813x+572.835

4. Correlation
-0.1855
Coefficient: r =

5. Sample Size: n = 197

6. For a man who is 143
cm tall, predict the
length of his femur 439.442741 mm
using the equation in
line 3.

7. For a man who is 195

cm tall, predict the
length of his femur 390.936465 mm
using the equation in
line 3.
 Discussion Questions:
(For each question, use one to two complete sentences to explain your answer.)

1. Describe the strength of the

Strong
correlation.

2. Describe the direction of the

Negative
correlation.

3. What does the correlation imply

about the relationship between the As their height increases so does the height of the femur.
person’s height and length of This is a normal phenomenon as the femur is the longest
their femur? bone in the body.

4. Are there any outliers? Yes

a. If so, list each one. (170, 390.6), (165,398.7),

5. If outliers exist, should they be

No
removed?

They do not need to be removed because, as they are

a. Why or why not? (even if
outliers, they do not affect the data to a degree that would
your set doesn’t have any)
require reevaluation.