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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

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As part of a study designed to test the safety of automobiles, the National Transportation Safety Board collected
and reviewed data about the effects of an automobile crash on test dummies. Cars with dummies in
the front seats were crashed into a wall at a speed of 35 miles per hour. We want to know the proportion of
dummies in the driver’s seat that would have had head injuries if they had been actual drivers. Head injury
data for the dummies in the driver’s seat are listed on the spreadsheet. Use a 0.05 significance level.
Find the P-value to test the null hypothesis that the different weight categories have the same mean. Do the
sample data suggest that larger cars are safer?

Subcompact	Compact	Midsize	Fullsize
681	643	469	384
428	655	727	656
917	442	525	602
898	514	454	687
420	525	259	360

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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