OpenStax, Contemporary Mathematics §8.8 Scatter Plots, Correlation, and Regression Lines · Example 5 · Statistics · Regression & correlation

Scatter Plots, Correlation, and Regression Lines · Example 5

Suppose you have datasets $x$ and $y$ with the following statistics: $x$ has mean 21 and standard deviation 4, $y$ has mean 8 and standard deviation 2, and their correlation coefficient is −0.4. What’s the equation of the regression line?

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