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(Model Diagnostics) The crime data contain the crime rate, and other information for each of fifty (n = 50) cities (Reference: Life In America’s Small Cities, by G.S. Thomas). One objective of the study is to model the crime rate (Y) based on other predictor variables (X1–X5). A short variable description is given below. Variable Name Meaning Y crimerate total overall reported crime rate per 1 million residents X1 police.funding annual police funding in $/resident X2 high % of people 25 years+ with 4 yrs. of high school X3 middle % of 16 to 19 year-olds not in highschool and not highschool graduates. X4 in.college % of 18 to 24 year-olds in college X5 graduate % of people 25 years+ with at least 4 years of college

          (Model Diagnostics) The crime data contain the crime rate, and other information for each of fifty (n = 50) cities (Reference: Life In America’s Small Cities, by G.S. Thomas). One objective of the study is to model the crime rate (Y) based on other predictor variables (X1–X5). A short variable description is given below.

Variable Name Meaning
Y crimerate total overall reported crime rate per 1 million residents
X1 police.funding annual police funding in $/resident
X2 high % of people 25 years+ with 4 yrs. of high school
X3 middle % of 16 to 19 year-olds
not in highschool and not highschool graduates.
X4 in.college % of 18 to 24 year-olds in college
X5 graduate % of people 25 years+ with at least 4 years of college

(Model Diagnostics) The crime data contain the crime rate, and other information for each of fifty (n = 50) cities (Reference: Life In America’s Small Cities, by G.S. Thomas). One objective of the study is to model the crime rate (Y) based on other predictor variables (X1–X5). A short variable description is given below.

Variable Name Meaning
Y crimerate total overall reported crime rate per 1 million residents
X1 police.funding annual police funding in /resident
X2 high % of people 25 years+ with 4 yrs. of high school
X3 middle % of 16 to 19 year-olds
not in highschool and not highschool graduates.
X4 in.college % of 18 to 24 year-olds in college
X5 graduate % of people 25 years+ with at least 4 years of college

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