Intro Stats
Intro Stats
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780321826275
Author: Richard D. De Veaux
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3, Problem 19E

Heart attack stays The histogram shows the lengths of hospital stays (in days) for all the female patients admitted to hospitals in New York during one year with a primary diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Chapter 3, Problem 19E, Heart attack stays The histogram shows the lengths of hospital stays (in days) for all the female

  1. a) From the histogram, would you expect the mean or median to be higher? Explain.
  2. b) Write a few sentences describing this distribution (shape, center, spread, unusual features).
  3. c) Which summary statistics would you choose to summarize the center and spread in these data? Why?
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Ch. 3.2 - Prob. 1JCCh. 3.2 - Prob. 2JCCh. 3.2 - Prob. 3JCCh. 3.2 - Prob. 4JCCh. 3.2 - Prob. 5JCCh. 3.7 - The U.S. Census Bureau reports the median family...Ch. 3.7 - Prob. 7JCCh. 3.7 - Prob. 8JCCh. 3 - Prob. 1ECh. 3 - 2. Opposites In a way, boxplots are the opposite...
Ch. 3 - Prob. 3ECh. 3 - Prob. 4ECh. 3 - Prob. 5ECh. 3 - Prob. 6ECh. 3 - Prob. 7ECh. 3 - Prob. 8ECh. 3 - Thinking about shape Would you expect...Ch. 3 - More shapes Would you expect distributions of...Ch. 3 - Prob. 15ECh. 3 - Prob. 16ECh. 3 - Prob. 17ECh. 3 - Run times One of the authors collected the times...Ch. 3 - Heart attack stays The histogram shows the lengths...Ch. 3 - 20. E-mails A university teacher saved every...Ch. 3 - Prob. 21ECh. 3 - Prob. 22ECh. 3 - Prob. 23ECh. 3 - Prob. 24ECh. 3 - Mistake A clerk entering salary data into a...Ch. 3 - Prob. 26ECh. 3 - Prob. 27ECh. 3 - Prob. 28ECh. 3 - Pizza prices The histogram shows the distribution...Ch. 3 - Neck size The histogram shows the neck sizes (in...Ch. 3 - Pizza prices again Look again at the histogram of...Ch. 3 - Neck sizes again Look again at the histogram of...Ch. 3 - Movie lengths 2010 The histogram shows the running...Ch. 3 - 34. Golf drives 2011 The display shows the average...Ch. 3 - Prob. 35ECh. 3 - Prob. 36ECh. 3 - Prob. 37ECh. 3 - Cold weather A meteorologist preparing a talk...Ch. 3 - Prob. 39ECh. 3 - Prob. 40ECh. 3 - Prob. 41ECh. 3 - The great one During his 20 seasons in the NHL,...Ch. 3 - Prob. 43ECh. 3 - Prob. 44ECh. 3 - Prob. 45ECh. 3 - Prob. 46ECh. 3 - Prob. 47ECh. 3 - Prob. 48ECh. 3 - Prob. 49ECh. 3 - Prob. 50ECh. 3 - Prob. 51ECh. 3 - Prob. 52ECh. 3 - Prob. 53ECh. 3 - Prob. 54ECh. 3 - Prob. 55ECh. 3 - ZIP codes revisited Here are some summary...Ch. 3 - Prob. 57ECh. 3 - Prob. 58ECh. 3 - Prob. 59ECh. 3 - Prob. 60E

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