Question

The errors in predicting hurricane tracks are given in nautical miles. A statutory mile is 0.86898 nautical mile. Most people living on the Gulf Coast of the United States would prefer to know the prediction errors in statutory miles rather than nautical miles. Explain why converting the errors to miles would not change the correlation between Prediction Error and Year.

Answer 1

The prediction error is calculated as the difference between the actual value and the predicted value of the hurricane tracks.

the actual and the predicted value can then be converted into stationary miles

Explanation:

The prediction error is calculated as the difference between the actual value and the predicted value of the hurricane tracks.

Now,

both the values i.e the actual and the predicted value can then be converted into stationary miles using the conversion factor without changing the association with the year,

Hence,

it will do the same for the Prediction error.