A marine biologist wants to test the effect of water temperature on the length of time sea otters can remain under water during a dive. He gathers data on randomly-selected dives by 7 different otters recording dive duration (in seconds) and water temperature (in degrees Celsius). A computer regression analysis of his data is given below. Assume all conditions for inference for slope have been met. Predictor Coef SE Coef Constant 52.789 5.257 10.04 0.000 Water temp 3.3684 0.4216 7.990 0.002 5.557 R-Sg 92.7% R-Sg (adj ) 91.3% = S = Which of the following is the estimate of the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of b, the slope of the sample regression line for this relationship?
(a) 0.4216
(b) 0.4216
(c) 5.257
(d) 5.257
(e) 5.557
Which of the following is the best interpretation of the quantity S
(a) The sum of the squared deviations between each observed dive duration and the dive 2.
(b) The sum of the squared deviations between each observed water temperature and the
(c) The average distance between the water temperature for each dive and the mean water
(d) Predictions of dive duration from water temperature based on this regression model will
(e) The average distance between the duration of each dive and the mean dive duration for duration predicted by the regression equation is 5.557 seconds. water temperature predicted by the regression equation is 5.557 seconds. temperature for all the dives in this sample is about 5.557 seconds. be off by an average of about 5.557 seconds. all the dives in this sample is about 5.557 seconds.