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Weight to Blood
Pressure

By: Marissa Rusnica

Lexie Szypulski
Vanessa Roudybush
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For our project we decided to measure the relationship between a

person's weight and their blood pressure. We hypothesized, If your weight
increases, then your blood pressure with increase. We predicted a strong
positive correlation with r = 0.854. To find gather our data and prove our
hypothesis we experimented by asking different people their weights and
recording their blood pressures.
Population means the entire group of individuals. Our population was
the entire group of people at DAHS or otherwise any staff or students that
attend DAHS. Sample means a part of the population from which we
actually collect data. Our sample would have been the group of individuals
used in our data that we used in our experiment. Variable means any
characteristic of an individual. Our explanatory variable was each person's
weight which they provided for us. The response variable would be their
blood pressure which we received after measuring it for them. We chose
the variables this way because in our hypothesis, your blood pressure is in
response to your weight, so we needed the blood pressure to respond to
the person’s weight.
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We did not have any outliers. Our data came out with no correlation
so no data points were able to throw us off.
Correlation describes the direction and strength of a straight line
relationship. Our correlation value was 0.108. The direction of our graph
would therefore be positive since this is not a negative correlation. The
direction of the graph shows if the correlation increased or decreased. The
strength of our graph was weak, meaning it did not show much correlation
between the data. Our strength can also show that our data was invalid,
due to our weak correlation. The validity just shows how much it proves
your hypothesis. Coefficient of determination is a variation in the values of y
that is explained by the least squares regression of y on x. Our coefficient
of determination value was 0.0116 meaning that our data had a 1.16%
variation, also contributing to its low correlation.
The least squares regression line is a line that makes the sum of the
squares of the vertical distance as small as possible. The equation for the
least squares regression line is y=mx+b.
170-130​= ​40 = ​ -2 101=-2(170)+ b
101-121 -20 441 = b
y=-2x+441
y=-2(180)+441
y=81

If you weigh 180 lbs, then I predict that your blood pressure will be 81
mmHg with a variation making it

A lurking variable is a variable that has an important effect on the

relationship among variables in a study but is not one of the explanatory
variables. Two lurking variables to our experiment could be how much they
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exercise daily and how much food they intake. Direct causation is occuring
due to the fact that a person’s weight directly impacts their blood pressure.
It is confounding because your exercise could impact your weight and/or
your blood pressure.
If r=.108, the correlation is positive meaning as weight increases,
then blood pressure increases. The correlation of .108 means that the
correlation is weak meaning that it is invalid. Since r=.108 then r^2=.0116
meaning any prediction has a 1.16% variation.

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