Question 2.49

2.49 Is regression useful?

In Exercise 2.39 (pages 7980), you used the Correlation and Regression applet to create three scatterplots having correlation about between the horizontal variable and the vertical variable . Create three similar scatterplots again, after clicking the “Show least-squares line” box to display the regression line. Correlation is considered reasonably strong in many areas of work. Because there is a reasonably strong correlation, we might use a regression line to predict from . In which of your three scatterplots does it make sense to use a straight line for prediction?