Question

Read the following proposed research study. Please state the type of statistical analysis that you would recommend to the researcher and what brought you to that conclusion:

Maximus really loves to eat apples. He wants to look at the relationship between the amount of apples eaten and the number of apple trees in the proximity. He counts the number of apple trees within a 1 mile radius of where someone is standing. He then counts the number of apples that a person has eaten.

Answer 1

Okay here the best statistical analysis that needs to be performed would be correlation analysis and performing linear regression in order to find the line of best fit.

Since Maximum wants to look at the relationship between the amount of apples eaten and the number of apple trees in the proximity, therefore by collecting data on the same using the method mentioned above, he can then find the correlation and scatter diagram in order to know if the two variables show a strong linear relationship or not(ideally the relationship should be positive). Then if he finds that the the amount of apples eaten and the number of apple trees in the proximity shows a strong linear relationship he can then perform regression to create the line of best fit which can be used to predict the number of apples eaten given the number of apple trees in the vicinity.

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