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Perhaps fans are just more interested in teams that win. The displays below are based on American League teams for the 2010 season. (espn go.com) Are the teams that win necessarily those which score the most runs?$$\begin{array}{lll}{\text { Wins }} & {\text { Runs }} & {\text { Attendance }} \\ {\text { Wins }} & {1.00} & {} \\ {\text { Runs }} & {0.919} & {1.00} \\ {\text { Attendance }} & {0.533} & {0.538} & {1.00}\end{array}$$a) Do winning teams generally enjoy greater attendance at their home games? Describe the association.b) Is attendance more strongly associated with winning or scoring runs? Explain.c) How strongly is scoring more runs associated with winning more games?
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533. This indicates a positive, linear, and moderate association between the number of wins a team has and the attendance at their home games. This means that as the number of wins increases, the attendance at home games also tends to increase. Therefore, winning Show more…
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Second inning 2013 Perhaps fans are just more interested in teams that win. The displays below are based on American League teams for the 2013 season. (espn.gocom) (Use the data set Attendance 2013 ). $$ \begin{array}{l|llc} \hline & \text { Wins } & \text { Runs } & \text { Attendance } \\ \hline \text { Wins } & 1000 & & \\ \text { Runs } & 0.793 & 1.000 & \\ \text { Attendance } & 0.254 & 0.384 & 1.000 \\ \hline \end{array} $$ a) Do winning teams generally enjoy greater attendance at their home games? Describe the association. b) Is attendance more strongly associated with winning or scoring runs? Explain. c) How strongly is scoring runs associated with winning games?
Attendance 2013 American League baseball games are played under the designated hitter rule, meaning that pitchers, often weak hitters, do not come to bat. Baseball owners believe that the designated hitter rule means more runs scored, which in tum means higher attendance. Is there evidence that more fans attend games if the teams score more runs? Data collected from American League games during the 2013 season indicate a correlation of 0.384 between runs scored and the number of people at the game. (espn.go.com/mlb/attendance)
American League baseball games are played under the designated hitter rule, meaning that pitchers, often weak hitters, do not come to bat. Baseball owners believe that the designated hitter rule means more runs scored, which in turn means higher attendance. Is there evidence that more fans attend games if the teams score more runs? Data collected from American League games during the 2010 season indicate a correlation of 0.667 between runs scored and the number of people at the game. (mlb.mlb.com) a) Does the scatterplot indicate that it's appropriate to calculate a correlation? Explain. b) Describe the association between attendance and runs scored. c) Does this association prove that the owners are right that more fans will come to games if the teams score more runs?
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