Beggars Cant Be Choosers Assuming Beggars Are Stupid

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Beggars Cant Be Choosers(Assuming Beggars Are
Stupid)

• Amanda Fisher

Shane McNamee
Austin McNamee
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Original Residual Plot (Linear)
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Transformed Residual Plot (Exp.)
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Assumptions

• Random Sampling
• Independent Errors (residual plot)
• Normally Distributed Errors (histogram)
• Normally Distributed Explanatory and
• Response Variables

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Histogram of Residuals (Linear)
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Outliers

• Are there any?
• You bet . . . 12!
• Identified using a boxplot

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Interpretation of r2
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Prediction

• ? 1.24 - 0.184x
• 1.24 0.184(3.0) data within range
• .688 68.8 acceptance rate
• ? 1.24 0.184(1.0) data NOT w/in range
• 1.06 106 acceptance rate
• I wanna apply to this college!!!

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Now we areDONE.(or are we finished?)
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Question

• Is there some correlation between the academic
  recognition score and the acceptance rate of
  college students?

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Design

• Data collected by US News and World Report
• Randomization, Replication, and Control
• Survey

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Variables Used

• Explanatory (x)
• Academic Recognition Score
• 5.0 is the highest
• Response (y)
• Acceptance Rate (in )
  

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Original Scatterplot (Linear)
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Transformed Scatterplot (Exp.)