Elementary Statistics: A Step By Step Approach

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ISBN: 9780073534985

Author: Allan Bluman

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math

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Chapter 14.1, Problem 18E

Electoral Votes Divide the 50 states into five subgroups by geographic location, using a map of the United States. Each subgroup should include 10 states. The subgroups should be northeast, southeast, central, northwest, and southwest. Select two states from each subgroup, and find the mean number of electoral votes for the sample. Compare these means with the population mean.

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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Solution Summary: The author explains that the sample mean of number of electoral votes is 7.7, and that there is a large difference between sample and population mean.

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