{"id":7,"date":"2009-02-16T21:46:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statisticalgraphics.blog.com\/4590600\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T21:46:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:46:01","slug":"another-trivial-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/another-trivial-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Trivial Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like all nations who fight the global financial and economic crises, Germany has put a package over several hundred billion euros. One part of the package is the so called &#8220;Umweltpr\u00e4mie&#8221;, which is nothing else than a voucher over 2,500 euros for everybody who turns in his\/her 9 or more years old car to be trashed and buys a new car.<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>Although we can assume the number of nine or more year old cars to be finite, there is a limit on the number of vouchers, which is set to 600,000. Now we come to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafa.de\/bafa\/de\/wirtschaftsfoerderung\/umweltpraemie\/foerdermittel\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">trivial plot<\/a>. The simple pie chart shows the proportion of voucher given out so far.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I did start to record the numbers last week, and with a week worth of data the increase looks like this:<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/Blog-files\/Vouchers.png\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>So far we seem to be still far away from the limit of 600,00. A simple linear regression yields this graph, and a results that tells us that the vouchers will be used up even before summer at May 31st:<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/Blog-files\/Prediction.png\" \/><\/div>\n<div>The linear estimate is certainly not a very fancy prediction here &#8230;&#160;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>When we have something around three weeks of data, I will post the data and open up the round for the best prediction &#8211; stay tuned!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like all nations who fight the global financial and economic crises, Germany has put a package over several hundred billion euros. One part of the package is the so called &#8220;Umweltpr\u00e4mie&#8221;, which is nothing else than a voucher over 2,500 euros for everybody who turns in his\/her 9 or more years old car to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}