Couch Potato

By: Korrin Leatherman, Pheobe Robillard, & Alex Luzier

Introduction
● Couch Potato
● The hypothesis is that if the age of the person
increases then the number of hours spent
watching television will increase with a moderate
positive correlation of .684.
● Sample Survey
● Population - an entire group of individuals being studied.
- Our population in our study is people of all ages from DuBois area.

● Sample - part of the population from which we actually collect data.

- Our sample is the residents of DuBois between the ages of 1 and 79.

● Variable - any characteristic of an individual.

- Our explanatory variable is the age of the people from whom we collected our
data.
- Our response variable is the hours of television the people watch during a
workweek.
We chose explanatory and response variables in the order we
did because age comes before hours of television watched.
● Our outliers are at points (79,
109) and (1, 63).
● They are our outliers because
they are far from the regression
line.
● Correlation - describes the strength of a straight line relationship between two
quantitative variables. Correlation is usually written as (r).
- Our correlation is r =0.418 and it’s a positive slope.
The strength is moderate, with a 17.5 % explained variation.

● Coefficient of Determination - the fraction (or percent) of the variation in the

values of y that is explained by the least- squares regression of y on x.
- Our coefficient of determination is .175; our explained variation is 17.5 % because
our coefficient of determination is .175.
● Least-squares Regression Line - the line that makes the sum of the squares of the
vertical distance as small as possible.
Our regression line equation is y=0.464x+12.061.
Since we are all around the age 17, we decided to use the age 17 as x in the
equation.
y=0.464(17)+12.061
y=7.888+12.061
y=19.949

● If the age is 17, then we predict that the hours spent watching television will be
19.949 with a 17.5% explained variation. Our prediction is moderately accurate.
● Lurking Variables - a variable that has an important effect on the relationship
among the variables in a study but is not one of the explanatory variables studied.

● One lurking variable in our statistics is having a job.

● Another lurking variable in our statistics is whether or not you have children.
● The hypothesis is that if the age of the person increases then the number of hours
spent watching television will increase with a moderate positive correlation of
.684.

● Incorrect Hypothesis

● Correlation is r = 0.418
● Positive Slope

● The strength is moderate, with a 17.5 % explained variation.

- Because our correlation is 0.418, is it moderately valid.
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