A doctor is researching the effects of "too much text messaging" on a group of teenagers. He has already shown that the average number of text messages sent per day by teenagers is 312 with a standard deviation of 125. He wants to know how many text messages separate the the lowest 15% from the highest 85% in a sampling distribution of 144 teenagers. Use Excel to calculate this. Round x¯ to the nearest whole number.
Inverse Normal Distribution
The method used for finding the corresponding z-critical value in a normal distribution using the known probability is said to be an inverse normal distribution. The inverse normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution with a family of two parameters.
Mean, Median, Mode
It is a descriptive summary of a data set. It can be defined by using some of the measures. The central tendencies do not provide information regarding individual data from the dataset. However, they give a summary of the data set. The central tendency or measure of central tendency is a central or typical value for a probability distribution.
Z-Scores
A z-score is a unit of measurement used in statistics to describe the position of a raw score in terms of its distance from the mean, measured with reference to standard deviation from the mean. Z-scores are useful in statistics because they allow comparison between two scores that belong to different normal distributions.
A doctor is researching the effects of "too much text messaging" on a group of teenagers. He has already shown that the average number of text messages sent per day by teenagers is 312 with a standard deviation of 125.
He wants to know how many text messages separate the the lowest 15% from the highest 85% in a sampling distribution of 144 teenagers. Use Excel to calculate this.
Round x¯ to the nearest whole number.
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A doctor is researching the effects of "too much text messaging" on a group of teenagers. He has already shown that the
average number of text messages sent per day by teenagers is 312 with a standard deviation of 125.
He wants to know how many text messages separate the the lowest 15% from the highest 85% in a sampling distribution
of 144 teenagers. Use Excel to calculate this.
Round z to the nearest whole number.
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