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Figure 12.4. The extended Basic Set of colors (including argaman). 17

WF = 502.62 + 0.1730*CNV
(p = .001464) (p = 0.007916)

(Numbers in brackets indicate the significance levels of the model’s estimated

coefficients.)
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The associated linear correlation is R = 0.9999, with adjusted-R = 0.9997.
For n = 3 (the sample size), the model’s F-ratio value is 6468, which, with 1 and

1 degrees of freedom, has significance value of p = 0.007916. In other words, the

probability of the three observations aligning on a straight line, the way they did,
if the null hypothesis were true (that is, by chance) is less than 1%.
A scatter plot of the observations, with the fitted linear regression equation and

95% confidence limits, is given in Figure 12.3.

Comments
1. An alternative statistical testing procedure, simpler but also less powerful, may
be suggested for the basic set, based on the following argument. Consider the
four observations red, yellow, green, blue. One may ask whether the prob-
ability of the event that “the ordered (sorted) observations, according to their