Using your own height and the appropriate regression equation from Exercise 9.31 or 9.32, predict your own weight. (If you are uncomfortable reporting your own weight, predict mine—I am 5 8 and weigh 146 pounds.) a. How much is your actual weight greater than or less than your predicted weight? (You have just calculated a residual.) b. What effect will biased reporting on the part of the students who produced the data play in your prediction of your own weight?
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