Essentials Of Statistics For Business & Economics
9th Edition
ISBN: 9780357045435
Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Chapter 3.4, Problem 54E
U.S. Border Crossings. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics keeps track of all border crossings through ports of entry along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders. The data contained in the file BorderCrossings show the most recently published figures for the number of personal vehicle crossings (rounded to the nearest 1000) at the 50 busiest ports of entry during the month of August (U.S. Department of Transportation website).
- a. What are the
mean andmedian numbers of crossings for these ports of entry? - b. What are the first and third
quartiles ? - c. Provide a five-number summary.
- d. Do the data contain any outliers? Show a boxplot.
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