Question

The critic rating and audience score for 8 movies are shown in the table.

Critic Rating 72 80 65 23 28 60 41 35
Audience Score 64 92 90 48 55 70 44 80
An owner of a movie theater is investigating whether critic rating can be used to predict the mean audience score of movies. Assuming the conditions for inference have been met, which of the following inference procedures is the most appropriate to estimate the mean change in audience score for each 1 point increase in the critic rating?
A. A one-sample t-test for means
B. A linear regression t-interval for slope
C. A two-sample t-interval for a difference between means
D. A matched-pairs t-interval for a mean difference
E. A two-sample Z-interval for a difference between proportions

Answer 1

B. A linear regression t-interval for slope

Explanation:

Given the data for the critic rating and audience score, the relationship between this vmaues acb be modeled using regression, the slope value helps give the average change in the dependent variable (audience svi per unit change in the value of the independent variable (critic rating). The t distribution is employed due to the relatively small sample size which

does not form an approximately normal distribution according to the Central limit theorem.