Question 2.1

2.1 Relationship between worker productivity and sleep

A study is designed to examine the relationship between how effectively employees work and how much sleep they get. Think about making a data set for this study.

  1. What are the cases?
  2. Would your data set have a label variable? If yes, describe it.
  3. What are the variables? Are they quantitative or categorical?
  4. Is there an explanatory variable and a response variable? Explain your answer.

2.1

(a) The cases are employees. (b) The label could be the employee's name or ID. (d) The explanatory variable is how much sleep they get; the response is how effectively they work.