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Old Aug 11, 2006 | 8:51 pm
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Originally Posted by swise
To get back on topic...
To calculate this somewhat right we'd have to look at miles traveled as our independent variable. The dependent variable would be # of accidents flying and # of accidents driving.

I did a lot of science fair.
Are you allowing for random error in this equation or are you going to control it? Also what α are you using??? Are you going to control the β or let it control itself?

I did a lot of graduate level statistics
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