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AP Statistics: Modeling Non-Linear Data ____________________ is data modeled by an equation of the form y = a + bx. ____________________ is the process of transforming nonlinear data into linear data. We use properties of ____________________ to linearize certain types of data. PROPERTIES OF LOGARITHMS: 1. 2. 3. Examples: 2. 3. Case 1: Consider the following set of Linear Data representing an account balance as a function of time: x: time (months) 0 48 96 144 192 240 y: account balance ($) 100 580 1060 1540 2020 2500 Describe the pattern of change… The relationship between x and y is __________ if, for equal increments of x, we __________ a fixed increment to y. Case 2: Consider the following set of Nonlinear Data representing an account balance as a function of time: x: time (months) 0 48 96 144 192 240 y: account balance ($) 100 161.22 259.93 419.06 675.62 1089.30 Describe the pattern of change… The relationship between x and y is ____________________ if, for equal increments of x, we _______________ a fixed increment by y. This increment is called the ____________________. We want to find the best fitting model to represent our data. For the linear data, we use least-squares regression to find the best fitting _____________. For the nonlinear data, the best fitting model would be an exponential ________________. PROBLEM: We cannot use least-squares regression for the nonlinear data because least-squares regression depends upon correlation, which only measures the strength of _______________ relationships. SOLUTION: We transform the nonlinear data into linear data, and then use least-squares regression to determine the best fitting __________for the transformed data. Finally, do a _______________ transformation to turn the linear equation back into a nonlinear equation which will model our original nonlinear data. Linearizing Exponential Functions: (We want to write an e