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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1P

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A survey of the population of 51 students in Psych 311 asks how many credits students are taking and obtains the following normally-distributed results: ∑ X= 686 and ∑X2= 9832.92. Using this information, answer the following six questions.

What is the mean number of credits that students are enrolled in? (MUST SHOW WORK FOR THIS PROBLEM)

Compute the variance (MUST SHOW WORK FOR THIS PROBLEM)

Compute the standard deviation (MUST SHOW WORK FOR THIS PROBLEM)

What is the percentile rank of a student who is enrolled in 15 credits? (Hint: This is the same thing as asking “what percentage of students is enrolled in 15 credits or less?”) MUST SHOW WORK FOR THIS PROBLEM

What percentage of students are enrolled in between 12 and 18 credits? (MUST SHOW WORK FOR THIS PROBLEM)

What is the 25th percentile? (Hint: This is the same as asking what score separates the bottom 25% of the distribution from the top 75%.) MUST SHOW WORK FOR THIS PROBLEM

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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