The following problem is considered in [1, Chapter 8,]. A certain chemical process leads to a product and a by-product . The yields of both products are thought to be related to the temperature of the process, . Twelve experiments are performed with different temperature settings (degrees fahrenheit) to study the effect of temperature. The data are shown in table 1, and plotted in Figure 1. In performing the analysis, we transform the temperature measurements to , where 177.86 is the mean temperature setting.
Figure 1: Yield of two products for a chemical process