The Management Department recently purchased a smallcopier for faculty use. Although the workload of the office staff has improved somewhat, the secretaries are still mak-ing too many trips to the Dean’s office when the depart-mental copier is out of service. Sylvia, the departmental secretary, has been keeping track of failure rates and ser-vice times. With a mean time between failures of 100 hours and a mean time to repair of 24 hours, how much of thetime is the new copier available for faculty use?
Inverse Normal Distribution
The method used for finding the corresponding z-critical value in a normal distribution using the known probability is said to be an inverse normal distribution. The inverse normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution with a family of two parameters.
Mean, Median, Mode
It is a descriptive summary of a data set. It can be defined by using some of the measures. The central tendencies do not provide information regarding individual data from the dataset. However, they give a summary of the data set. The central tendency or measure of central tendency is a central or typical value for a probability distribution.
Z-Scores
A z-score is a unit of measurement used in statistics to describe the position of a raw score in terms of its distance from the mean, measured with reference to standard deviation from the mean. Z-scores are useful in statistics because they allow comparison between two scores that belong to different normal distributions.
The Management Department recently purchased a small
copier for faculty use. Although the workload of the office
staff has improved somewhat, the secretaries are still mak-
ing too many trips to the Dean’s office when the depart-
mental copier is out of service. Sylvia, the departmental
secretary, has been keeping track of failure rates and ser-
vice times. With a
and a mean time to repair of 24 hours, how much of the
time is the new copier available for faculty use?
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