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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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The business problem facing the director of broadcasting operations for a television station was the issue of standby hours and what factors were related to standby hours. The study included the following variables:Standby hours (Y) –Total number of standby hours in a week weekly staff count (X1) –Weekly total of people-days. Remote engineering hours (X2) –Total number of engineering hours worked by employees at locations away from the central plant data were collected for 26 weeks. These data are organized and stored in.

A)Interpret the meaning of the coefficients b1and b2 in this problem

B)What is the significance of b0?

C)Predict the mean standby hours for a week in which the weekly staff count was 310 people-days and the remote-engineering hours total was 400

Standby_hours_(Y)	Total_Staff_Present(X1)	Remote_Hours_(X2)
247	338	414
177	333	600
269	358	656
211	372	631
196	337	528
135	289	419
195	334	382
118	293	399
116	325	343
147	311	338
154	304	353
146	312	289
115	283	388
161	307	402
274	322	151
245	335	228
201	350	271
183	339	440
237	327	475
175	328	347
152	319	449
188	325	336
188	322	267
197	317	235
261	315	164
232	331	270

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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