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In a study to investigate the prevalence of relationships between different socioeconomic factors, 52 western cities were rated by nine criteria: climate terrain, housing, health care environment, crime, transportation, education, arts, recreation, and economics. For housing and crime, the lower the rating score, the better. For the remaining seven criteria, the higher the score, the better.

Make a scatter plot displaying the relationship of crime against education. Based on your plot, what would you say about the relationship between crime and education for these western cities?

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The Westernrates data set contains data about ratings on nine criteria (climate and terrain, housing, health care and environment, crime, transportation, education, arts, recreation, and economics) for 52 western cities.

These are the variables in the data set:

This data is sample data from SAS Institute Inc.

It appears that there is somewhat of a weak, positive linear relationship between crime and education. The relationship is positive in the sense that as the education score increases, there appears to be an increase in the crime score for these western cities, which one would think is an undesirable effect.