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Copyright ©2013, 2010, 2007, 2004 by W. H. Freeman and CompanyThe Basic Practice of Statistics, 6th EditionDavid S. Moore, William I. Notz, Michael A. Fligner

Copyright ©2013, 2010, 2007, 2004 by W. H. Freeman and CompanyThe Basic Practice of Statistics, 6th EditionDavid S. Moore, William I. Notz, Michael A. Fligner

Copyright ©2013, 2010, 2007, 2004 by W. H. Freeman and CompanyThe Basic Practice of Statistics, 6th EditionDavid S. Moore, William I. Notz, Michael A. Fligner

Figure 4.2 Scatterplot of the number of Florida manatees killed by boats in the years 1977 to 2009 against the

number of boats registered in Florida that year, for Example 4.5. There is a strong linear (straight-line) pattern.

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Figure 4.3 Mean SAT Mathematics score and percent of high school graduates who take the test for only the

Midwest (•) and Northeast (+) states.

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Figure 4.5 How correlation measures the strength of a linear relationship, for Example 4.6. Patterns closer to a

straight line have correlations closer to 1 or –1.