Name:tibadreah

Regression Mini-Project

Focus Question: is the budget of a movie an accurate predictor of its box office?

Week 1: Research 10 movie's budgets and box offices (how much money the movie made.) The movies must be from 2000 or afterward. Make sure to save your sources. Fill in the table below.

Note: Convert the budget and box office into millions. I.e., if a movie had a budget of $32,000,000, simply write 32.

Name of Movie

Year Released

Budget ($ Million)

Box Office ($ Million)

Week1:Make a scatterplot of your data.(Use excel and import the graph)Remember to label your axes!

Week2:In the space below, comment on the correlation. Based on the spread, how would you classify it? (Positive / negative? With a correlation that is strong / weak / nonexistent? Is it linear?)

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Week 2:Use a TI emulator on the internet or other resource to calculate the regression function and the Pearson's correlation coefficient,r.

Regression function:

r:

The Best Picture Winner for 2017,The Shape of Water, had a budget of $19.4 million, and a box office of $195.2 million (IMDB.) What box office would your regression function have predicted based on that budget?

Week 2:Based onr, would you change how you categorize the correlation between a movie's budget and its box office? If you were a studio executive, would you feel confident using this regression model to predict a movie's box office? Why?

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Works Cited

"The Shape of Water (2017)."IMDb,The Internet Movie Database,

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1.