144 Mental health care Exercise 142 introduced historical da

14.4 Mental health care. Exercise 14.2 introduced historical data in which the explanatory variable was the reciprocal of the distance to the nearest healthcare facility (miles1, variable name REC_DIST) and the response variable was the per cent of patients cared for at home (variable name PHOME2). Table 14.6 lists the data. Eliminate observation 13 (Nantucket) and then determine the least square regression coefficients for the data.

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