Week 2
1. Suppose m=4 students have taken some class, and the class had a midterm exam and a final exam. You have collected a dataset of their scores on the two exams, which is as follows:
midterm exam | (midterm exam)2 | final exam |
89 | 7921 | 96 |
72 | 5184 | 74 |
94 | 8836 | 87 |
69 | 4761 | 78 |
You'd like to use polynomial regression to predict a student's final exam score from their midterm exam score. Concretely, suppose you want to fit a model of the form h