Question

Give a specific example illustrating how correlation does not imply causation. 2. A grocery manager has data concerning their sales of fresh produce over a 20 year period. The manger plugs their data into excel and without plotting comes up with the equation for the regression line. Using this equation they estimate the produce sales for the upcoming year. What mistakes did they make? Explain.

Answer 1

Solution. A grocery manager has data concerning their sales of fresh produce over a 20 year period. The manger plugs their data into excel and without plotting comes up with the equation for the regression line. ( Plotting the Data give a lot better insight of data then a regression line the relationship might have been exponential tipically in case with grown fitting a linear regression line to underestimate procedure. The model is being production for upcoming years that is the model extrapolation but the model valied for interpolation. .). Thank God