a. How would you assess the usefulness of the average number of wins as a predictor of whether a team ever won a Super Bowl?

b. What’s the advantage of being able to use a categorical variable (such as 1 or 0) as a dependent variable?

c. What other variables might you use to predict the dependent variable, and why would you choose them?

Team Average Number of Bowl? (1 = yes and 0 = Wins Over 10 Years no)

Savannah Sharks 12 1

Pittsburgh Pelicans 11 0

Williamstown Warriors 15 0

Bennington Bruisers 12 1

Atlanta Angels 13 1

Trenton Terrors 16 0

Virginia Vipers 15 1

Charleston Crooners 9 0

Harrisburg Heathens 8 0

Eaton Energizers 12 1

Discuss the general idea that just because two things are correlated, it does not mean that one causes the other.

Provide an example (other than ice cream and crime!).

 

no. of bowl	team average
1	12
0	11
0	15
1	12
1	13
0	16
1	15
0	9
0	8
1	12