In Exercise 9.1 in Chapter 9 we saw data on infant mortality and risk factors. Why might

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In Exercise 9.1 in Chapter 9 we saw data on infant mortality and risk factors. Why might you feel more comfortable making a prediction based on Income for Senegal than for Ethiopia or Namibia?

Exercise 9.1

In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than half of mothers lose at least one child before the child’s first birthday. Below are data on 36 countries in the region, giving country, infant mortality, per capita income (in U.S. dollars), percentage of births to mothers under 20, percentage of births to mothers over 40, percentage of births less than two years apart, percentage of married women using contraception, and percentage of women with unmet family planning need.
(http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib_2-02.html) Available at the book’s website as SubSaharanInfMort.
dat. (Notice the effect of outliers.)image text in transcribed

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