Section 8.2

Exercise Set B: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Section 8.4

Exercise Set D: 1

Section 9.1

Exercise Set A: 6, 8, 9, 10

Section 9.2

Exercise Set B: 1,

Section 9.3

Exercise Set C: 1, 2, 4

Section 9.4

Exercise Set D: 1, 2

Section 9.5

Exercise Set E: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Also:

The file http://dananne.org/fu/courses/math-241/R/pearson.txt contains the data from Karl Pearson's study of the heights of 1078 fathers and sons discussed in Section 8.1. The data is in a table, with the first column labeled “Father” and the second column labeled “Son”. Find the correlation coefficient $r$ of the heights of fathers and sons.

Notes: If you use RStudio to directly import this file, change the “Separator” selection from “Tab” to “Whitespace”.

Answer:

$r = 0.5013$