Answered: Radon: The Problem No One Wants to…

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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“Radon: The Problem No One Wants to Face” is the title of an article
appearing in Consumer Reports. Radon is a gas emitted from the ground that
can collect in houses and buildings. At certain levels, it can cause lung cancer.

Radon concentrations are measured in picocuries per liter (pCi/L). A radon
level of 4 pCi/L is considered “acceptable.” Radon levels in a house vary from
week to week. In one house, a sample of 8 weeks had the following readings
for radon level (in pCi/L):

1.9 | 2.8 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 1.9 | 8.6 | 3.9 | 7.2

a) Find the mean, median, and mode.
b) Find the sample standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and range.
c) Interpretation: Based on the data, would you recommend radon
mitigation in this house? Explain.

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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