The following histogram shows the temperature measured at 12 noon on every day of a fifteen-year period for the U.S. city of Philadelphia (5,471 days) with:  Mean: 54;  Median 55;  SD 18  A. How would you characterize this distribution (symmetric, right skewed, or left skewed) without calculations? Justify the answer properly. B. Whether the data is unimodal or

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Q1. The following histogram shows the temperature measured at 12 noon on every day of a fifteen-year period for the U.S. city of Philadelphia (5,471 days) with: 

Mean: 54; 

Median 55; 

SD 18 

A. How would you characterize this distribution (symmetric, right skewed, or left skewed) without calculations? Justify the answer properly.

B. Whether the data is unimodal or bi-modal. Give proper reasoning. 

C. What formula for the median calculation has been used in this problem? 

D. Is it possible to compute the variance of the data, if it is so, what will be the variance of the data?

E. What is the kurtosis measure? 

F. Consider a small sample of temperatures (12, 13 54 56 25). For this sample calculate the type of kurtosis present. Make proper graphs.

Answer part c and b

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