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Examples
Predict state revenues
Predict GPA based on SAT
predict reaction time from blood alcohol level
Extrapolation
2 variance of predicted
r
variance of observed
No Straight Line?
What if the scatterplot shows a straight line
model is not appropriate?
Might see if some function of y is approximately
linear in some function of x.
Examples
Plot y versus ln(x)
Plot 1/y versus 1/x