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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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Clothing sizes are not standardized across brands. Suppose that a large study of women's size 4 jeans revealed that the mean hip measurment was 35.8 in with a standard deviation of 0.7 in. As part of a project for a fashion merchandizing class, Mallorie selects a simple random sample of 15 pairs of women's size 6 jeans and records the following hip measurements, in inches.

38.3,36.8,37.0,37.0,37.4,37.1,36.8,37.9,36.8,36.1,36.5,37.8,36.7,36.6,37.138.3,36.8,37.0,37.0,37.4,37.1,36.8,37.9,36.8,36.1,36.5,37.8,36.7,36.6,37.1

Mallorie plans to use this data to construct a 90% confidence interval for ?μ, the mean hip measurement of women's size 6 jeans. She assumes that the hip measurements are normally distributed and that the population standard deviation is 0.7 in.

The sample mean, ?⎯⎯⎯x¯, is the point estimate for a confidence interval to estimate a population mean. What is the mean hip measurement for the random sample of 15 pairs of women's size 6 jeans? Give your answer precise to two decimal places.

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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