# A researcher wishes to estimate the body weight of wild elephants. # He measured the body weight of 13 captured elephants of different sizes as well # as a number of predictor variables, such as leg length, trunk length, etc. # Through stepwise regression, he found that the inter-leg distance (shown in figiure) # is the best predictor of body weight. # L: inter-leg distance # W: Weight L W 0.31 1.657 0.43 2.500 0.52 4.680 0.59 7.075 0.70 10.070 0.83 11.988 0.89 14.836 1.12 18.318 1.13 23.496 1.19 27.897 1.25 36.796 1.41 44.611 1.50 51.183