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Author:R. David Gustafson, Jeff Hughes

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Chapter8: Sequences, Series, And Probability

Section8.7: Probability

Problem 58E: What is meant by the sample space of an experiment?

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A hospital conducted a study of the waiting time in its

-emergency

room. The hospital has a

main campus and three

-satellite

locations. Management had a business objective of reducing

waiting time for emergency room cases that did not require immediate attention. To study this, a

random sample of 15 emergency room cases that did not require immediate attention at each

location were selected on a particular day, and the waiting times (measured from check- in to

when the patient was called into the clinic area) were collected and stored in the table.

a) At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence of a difference in the mean waiting times in

the four locations?

Main	Satellite 1	Satellite 2	Satellite 3
120.08	30.75	75.86	54.05
81.90	61.83	37.88	38.82
78.79	26.40	68.73	36.85
63.83	53.84	51.08	32.83
79.77	72.30	50.21	52.94
47.94	53.09	58.47	34.13
79.88	27.67	86.29	69.37
48.63	52.46	62.90	78.52
55.43	10.64	44.84	55.95
64.06	53.50	64.17	49.61
64.99	37.28	50.68	66.40
53.82	34.31	47.97	76.06
62.43	66.00	60.57	11.37
65.07	8.99	58.37	83.51
81.02	29.75	30.40	39.17

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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