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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 cognitive psychologist was interested in how long it took for college students to memorize a list of formulas (and recite without error) for their statistics exam. The times it took for six students were 45 , 30 , 42, 45, 41, and 43 minutes.
Provide all answers to the nearest two decimal points:
Compute the mean, median, and mode.
Based on the measures of central tendency, what can you infer about the distribution (skewness)
Compute the range.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the value that occurs most frequently in a data set. A data set may have more than one mode if multiple categories repeat an equal number of times. For example, in a data set with five item—3, 5, 5, 29, 473—the mode is 5 because it occurs twice and no other value occurs more than once. On a histogram or bar chart, the element with the highest bar represents the mode. Therefore, the mode is sometimes considered the most popular option. The mode is useful for nominal or categorical data (e.g., the most common color car that users purchase), but it is problematic for continuous data because it is more likely not to have any value that is more frequent than the other.

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