A researcher from the University of California, San Diego, collected data on average per capita wine consumption and heart disease death rate in a random sample of 19 countries for which data were available. The following table displays the data.

Is there convincing evidence of a negative linear relationship between wine consumption and heart disease deaths in the population of countries?

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Alcohol from Alcohol from wine Heart disease death wine Heart disease death (liters/year) rate (per 100,000) (liters/year) rate (per 100,000) 2.5 211 7.9 107 3.9 167 1.8 167 2.9 131 1.9 266 2.4 191 0.8 227 2.9 220 6.5 86 0.8 297 1.6 207 9.1 71 5.8 115 2.7 172 1.3 285 0.8 211 1.2 199 0.7 300