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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

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In order to estimate the mean 30-year fixed mortgage rate for a home loan in the United States, a random sample of 25 recent loans is taken. The average calculated from this sample is 7.10%. It can be assumed that 30-year fixed mortgage rates are normally distributed with a population standard deviation of 0.5%. Compute 90% and 99% confidence intervals for the population mean 30-year fixed mortgage rate. (You may find it useful to reference the z table. Round your final answer to 2 decimal places. Enter your answers as percentages, not decimals.)

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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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