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Shocking Rats

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Keywords:
Categories:
regression;
biology
Description:
In the experiment, rats were placed in a shuttlebox (maze) and were timed in successive attempts. An unsuccessful attempt was followed by an electric shock for the duration of the next attempt if an attempt was longer than 5 seconds. The data give the average times and the number of shocks for all attempts.

The data consists of 16 observations on two variables.

Variables:
Shocks The number of shocks
Time The average time to complete the maze in seconds/
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
Hand et al. dataset 348.
Notes:
A good, simple regression problem. Is there a non-linear trend?
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