Exercise 7.22 introduced a study conducted about antibiotic consumption in China. One aim of the study was
Question:
Exercise 7.22 introduced a study conducted about antibiotic consumption in China. One aim of the study was to develop a prediction model for predicting monthly average antibiotic consumption based on county-level data. The following plots show the association between monthly average antibiotic consumption and four potential predictor variables: proportion female inhabitants (female), average life expectancy in years (lifeexp), proportion of population illiterate (illiterate), and population density in 1,000 people \(/ \mathrm{km}^{2}\) (popdensity).
(a) Summarize what you see.
(b) Identify any predictor variables that might benefit from a natural log transformation and briefly justify your choices.
Data From Exercise 7.22
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Introductory Statistics For The Life And Biomedical Sciences
ISBN: 9781943450121
1st Edition
Authors: Julie Vu, David Harrington