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A study from a Colombian research center is about to publish a pilot study regarding a new coffee plant that they believe can reduce total cholesterol in humans. They gave increasing doses (cups of coffee) to a test patient over several weeks and recorded the following data:
 

caffeine (mg)     Cholesterol level (mg/dL)    
100     684    
200     547    
300     200    
400     399    
500     415    
600     400    
700     58    
 

Evaluate the claim that the caffeine from this new plant reduces cholesterol by plotting caffeine levels (x) versus the cholesterol levels (y) in StatCrunch (copy and paste your graph and attach as a Word doc).
 

a.    What is the correlation coefficient r and what does it mean in this case?
b.    What is the coefficient of determination and what does it mean in this case?
c.    Is there a statistically significant correlation between caffeine intake and cholesterol levels in this case? 

d) What is the intercept? (or -what would be your cholesterol level while ingesting no caffeine?)
e) What is the slope? (or, what is what we call b in the linear regression equation?)
f) How many cups of coffee must you drink to lower your total cholesterol to 150 mg/dL (given that 1 cup of coffee equals 100 mg of caffeine)? 

    • 8 years ago
    (a) Correlation coefficient is r = -0.728. This implies a moderate correlation between caffeine content and Cholesterol level. ...
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