TMTH 3360 APPLIED TECHNICAL STATISTICS Fall 2014 Instructor: Margaret Tellegen Email: Use WEBCT Blackboard Textbook: Introduction to Probability and Statistics 14th Edition by Wm. Mendenhall & R. Beaver‚ Duxbury Press (required) Computer Software –Excel Objectives: Statistics are a part of every day life. We encounter them in evaluating medical treatments‚ picking a retirement plan‚ interpreting political polls‚ and even in sports. In this class we
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Chapt 10 # 42 H0: game length is >= 3.5 hours Ha: game length is < 3.5 hours mean = 2.9553 stdev = 0.5596 Get the t test statistic: t = (x-mu)/(stdev/sqrt(N)) t = (2.9553-3.5)/(0.5596/sqrt(17)) t = -4.0133 Get the critical value for df = N-1 = 16‚ one tail‚ alpha is 0.05: -1.7459 Since our test statistic is much lower than the critical value‚ we reject the null hypothesis. There is enough evidence to conclude that games are shorter than 3.50 hours. Chapt 11 # 58 The amount
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Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Origin of Statistics: The word Statistics seems to have been derived from Latin word ‘Status’‚ German word ‘Statistik’ or Italian word ‘Statista’. Each of these means “Political State’. In ancient time governments used to collect the information regarding the population & the property of the State. In India an efficient system of collecting official and administrative statistics existed even more than 2000 Years ago‚ in particular‚ during the period of Chandra Gupta
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Statistics in Business QNT/351 Donald Lifke Statistics in Business Statistics is defined as the science of data. It involves collecting‚ classifying‚ summarizing‚ organizing‚ analyzing‚ and interpreting numerical information. (McClave‚ Benson‚ & Sincich‚ 2011‚ p. 3). . There are two different application process involved in statistics; descriptive and inferential. Descriptive statistics is the analysis that helps describe‚ summarize or show data in a way to allow patterns to emerge
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1) What is the difference between probability distributions and frequency distributions? Provide an example that demonstrates the difference between the two. A probability distribution directly corresponds to a frequency distribution‚ except that it is based on theory (probability theory)‚ rather than on what is observed in the real world (empirical data). A frequency distribution is based on actual observations. An example would be observing a coin be flipped twenty times. A probability distribution
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Rebecca Verian 2577648 Context: π 1: There is no significant difference between the mean heights of the singers. π2: The average of heights of high pitched voices is equal. π3: The average of heights of low pitched voices is equal. Conditions: * There are 39 cases. * Based on the graph gotten the average heights of Soprano are 64.25 inches. * The average heights of the Alto singers are 64.88 inches. * The Tenor singers had an average height of 69.15 inches. * The mean
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Key Synthesis/Potential Test Questions (PTQs) • What is statistics? Making an inference about a population from a sample. • What is the logic that allows you to be 95% confident that the confidence interval contains the population parameter? We know from the CLT that sample means are normally distributed around the real population mean (). Any time you have a sample mean within E (margin of error) of then the confidence interval will contain . Since 95% of the sample means are within E
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1. STAT10T 7.2.1-2 (Points: 5.0) Solve the problem. Find the critical value zα/2 that corresponds to a degree of confidence of 91%. a. 1.645 b. 1.75 c. 1.34 d. 1.70 2. STAT10T 7.2.3-2 (Points: 5.0) Solve the problem. The following confidence interval is obtained for a population proportion‚ p: 0.817 < p < 0.855 Use these confidence interval limits to find the point estimate‚ . a. 0.833 b. 0.817 c. 0.839 d. 0.836 3. STAT10T 7.2.4-3 (Points: 5
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disillusionment with representative parties‚ so the people prefer to make their own decisions. This will get rid of a lot of the disillusionment with representative parties. Which will therefore make decisions easier and quicker to be made however we could critique it might actually make it slower because instead of dealing with parties we are dealing with the whole of society and it will also be expensive to carry out. Another reason is that it is the more legitimate answer of what the people want. It is
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evidence to infer that the population mean is not equal to 180. c t x s/ n 175 180 60 / 200 1.18‚ p-value = .2400. There is not enough evidence to infer that the population mean is not equal to 180. 269 d. As the s increases‚ the test statistic increases and the p-value increases. 12.12 H0 : H0 : = 50 50 a Rejection region: t t x s/ n 52 50 15 / 25 t / 2‚n 1 t .05‚24 1.711 or t t / 2‚n 1 t .05‚24 1.711 .67‚ p-value = .5113. There is not enough evidence
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