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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

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The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 3 days and a standard deviation of 1.5 days. Let X be the recovery time for a randomly selected patient. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

d. What is the probability of spending more than 3.8 days in recovery?

e. What is the probability of spending between 3.5 and 4.1 days in recovery?

f. The 85th percentile for recovery times is days.

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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