LASA 1: Linear Regression

Please note that this assignment requires that our report be in the form of a narrative. (Even without this specification, let’s get into the habit of always completing our LASA math assignments in a narrative format.) This means that your final report should read like an essay or a magazine article. Your LASA reports must not look like a math homework assignment. That is, even though there are seven items to address, we should not explicitly identify these items as “1 through 7” in our report.

Please be sure to use full sentences, and do your best to avoid grammatical, spelling, and usage errors. Assume that the people reading your report understand basic math, but are not familiar with linear regression.

At this time, please bring up M3 Assignment 2 in the left-side menu of our eClassroom. Click on the second blue link in the assignment’s instructions. You’ll get a spreadsheet that contains four pairs of numbers. This is just meaningless sample data that comes with this LASA; it’s not the “real” data that we’re going to use in our actual reports. But let me use this sample data to write a sample LASA. Pretend that the graph of this sample data is not yet available to us, and let’s do items 2 – 8 of the ten-step Excel procedure (given in the assignment’s instructions) to produce a graph for your four pairs of numbers.

Now, pretend that your four pairs of numbers are data from a study that wanted to find the correlation between the average number of hours that a basketball team practiced each day and the number of wins that the team achieved that year. So the variables are “average number of practice hours each day” and “number of wins”.