In Exercises 5-20, find the range , variance, and standard deviation for the given sample data. Include appropriate units (such as “minutes”) in your results. (The same data were used in Section 3-1, where we found measures of center. Here we find measures of variation.) Then answer the given questions. 14. Firefighter Fatalities Listed below are the numbers of heroic firefighters who lost their lives in the United States each year while fighting forest fires. The numbers are listed in order by year, starting with the year 2000. What important feature of the data is not revealed by any of the measures of variation?
In Exercises 5-20, find the range , variance, and standard deviation for the given sample data. Include appropriate units (such as “minutes”) in your results. (The same data were used in Section 3-1, where we found measures of center. Here we find measures of variation.) Then answer the given questions. 14. Firefighter Fatalities Listed below are the numbers of heroic firefighters who lost their lives in the United States each year while fighting forest fires. The numbers are listed in order by year, starting with the year 2000. What important feature of the data is not revealed by any of the measures of variation?
In Exercises 5-20, find the range, variance, and standard deviation for the given sample data. Include appropriate units (such as “minutes”) in your results. (The same data were used in Section 3-1, where we found measures of center. Here we find measures of variation.) Then answer the given questions.
14. Firefighter Fatalities Listed below are the numbers of heroic firefighters who lost their lives in the United States each year while fighting forest fires. The numbers are listed in order by year, starting with the year 2000. What important feature of the data is not revealed by any of the measures of variation?
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