Regression Project

The talk of how much education can affect a persons life on the
poverty line for a long time. But many of those people are only able to
go to school for a short while because their families arent able to able
to continue the fees, or the child has to come home to take care of the
other kids, or to do labor to help out the family. In this case the
education system for these children is experiencing major problems.
Many of the students arent even able to stay past learning how to
read or write, which is a major turning point for whether they will be
able to get a job or not. For my data, I chose to connect literacy rate
(percent of literate people above the age of 15) to poverty rate
(percent of people on the poverty line), to see how the literacy rate
would reflect how many people (in percentages,) are being stranded on
the poverty line because they are illiterate. This data is important for
anyone who may be making decisions about education (in any country,
but specifically less developed countries), whose population of people
on the poverty line could be dramatically. It is also for anyone with the
power to make decisions about education who may not be directly
involved in education, as they may still be able to have an impact
somehow by doing things such as creating programs to help keep the
children in school, giving families a way to support themselves better
whilst their children are in school, or anyone who may be able to
improve a countries literacy rate to minimize the amount of people on
the poverty line.
In this case the y values are representing the percentage of
literacy in the country compared to the x values of the percentage of
people in that country who are on the poverty line. The domain and
range of or this graph is (0, 100) because it is working with population
percentages which cannot be 0 or less than zero. Below is a quick
sketch of the graph showing the basic shape of the graph as well as
the function that best fit it.
Literacy Rate (%) to Poverty Rate (% of a country)

Literacy
Rate
(%)

Poverty Rate (%)

The equation that best fit this graph was a cubic regression
which had an r^2 value of 0.88513. This is the r^2 value that is closest
to 1, meaning that this line will be closer to the data points in accuracy
more so than any other line. (The cubic regression function is
represented in the blue line in the graph above). The equation for this
line is that Y1=1.458287x10^-5X^3 + 9.45397x10^-4X^2 +0.789777 +71.28932. As previously said, this information could be
very important to anyone trying to raise awareness of how education
could improve lives, a person in government could use it for programs
to increase the amount of literate people, and give them something
specific to focus on (literacy rate) to improve. It could also be used in
an education board to make educated decisions about how best to help
improve lives through education.
It is obvious that based on this data the higher literacy a
population has, the lower percentage of people on the poverty line can
be found. Though the graph does have points that dont directly
correlate to the cubic regression line, the trend can be found within this
data that in order to get people to not live on the poverty line, a major
way to help that is through making them literate through education. In
this way, the data shown here is very, very important to improving
peoples lives worldwide.