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Question 8 A researcher is interested in estimating the effect that the number of cigarettes that a pregnant mother smokes has on her baby's health. A common measure of a child's health and birth is her weight regression: The researcher decides to estimate the following where Wi the weight at birth of mother i's baby (in pounds) the daily number of cigarettes smoked by mother i during the pregnancy 1. Would you expect the estimate of 0, to be positive or negative? What does B represent? 2. Would you expect the estimate of 62 to be positive represent? negative? What does B2 or 3. Give an interpretation of u. Give 3 examples of factors that may end up in u. where

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