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What is statistics?
Explain the difference between descriptive
inferential statistics.
Explain the difference between qualitative
quantitative data.
Explain how populations and variables differ.
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A random sample of 87 observations
produced a mean = 25.7 and a standard deviation
s = 2.6.
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Health care workers who use latex gloves
with glove powder on a daily basis are particularly
susceptible to developing a latex allergy. Each in a
sample of 50 hospital employees who were
diagnosed with a latex allergy based on a skin-
Chapter 5:
Ex 4) A large company must hire a new president.
The Board of Directors prepares a list of five
candidates, all of whom are equally qualified. Two
of these candidates are members of a minority
group. To avoid bias in the selection of the
candidate, the company decides to select the
president by lottery.
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Which hypothesis, the null or the alternative,
is the status-quo hypothesis?
2.
A university economist conducted a study of
elementary school lunch menus. During the statemandated testing period, school lunches averaged
890 calories. The economist claimed that after the
testing period ended, the average caloric content
of the school lunches increased/dropped
1.
Researchers conducted a survey of a
representative sample of over 1,000 drivers. Based
on how often each driver engaged in road
behaviour, a road rage score was given. The
drivers were also grouped by annual income. The
data were subjected to an analysis of variance,
with the results summarized in the table.
2.
Researchers surveyed a random sample of 25
Chapter 10:
Ex 2) A Sample of 36 observations is selected from
a normal population. The sample mean is 12, and
the population standard deviation is 3. Conduct the
following test of hypothesis using the 0.01
significance level.
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Consider the pairs of measurements shown
to the right.
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Researchers investigated the effect of tablet
surface area to volume on the rate at which a drug
is released in a controlled-release dosage. For six
similarly shaped tablets with different weights and
thicknesses, the diffusional drug release rate
(percentage of drug released divided by the square
Chapter 13:
Ex 6) The owner of Maumee Ford-Mercury-Volvo
wants to study the relationship between the age of
a car and its selling price. Listed below is a random
sample of 12 used cars sold at the dealership
during the last year.
a.
If we wants to estimate selling price on the
basis of the age of car, which variable is thr
dependent varialble and which is the independent