The following statistics are taken from an article by P. Burch relating cigarette smoking to lung ca
Question: The following statistics are taken from an article by P. Burch relating cigarette smoking to lung cancer. The article presents data relating mortality from lung cancer to average cigarette consumption (lb/person) for females in England and Wales over a 40-year period.
The data are given in the table below.
Cigarette consumption and lung-cancer mortality in England and Wales, 1930-1969
Period | \[Lo{{g}_{10}}\] mortality (over 5 years),y | \[Lo{{g}_{10}}\] annual cigarette consumption (lb/person),x |
1930-1934 | -2.35 | -0.26 |
1935-1939 | -2.20 | -0.03 |
1940-1944 | -2.12 | 0.30 |
1945-1949 | -1.95 | 0.37 |
1950-1954 | -1.85 | 0.40 |
1955-1959 | -1.80 | 0.50 |
1960-1964 | -1.70 | 0.55 |
1965-1969 | -1.58 | 0.55 |
Compute the correlation between 5-year lung cancer mortality and annual cigarette consumption when each is expressed in the \[{{\log }_{10}}\] scale.
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