Answered: The table below gives the number of…

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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The table below gives the number of accidents each year at a particular road junction:
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 4 15 14 22 30 45 13 9
a) Work out the mean, median, and mode for the values above.
b) Compute the standard deviation
c) A road safety group wants to get the council to make this junction safer. Which measure
will they use to argue for this?

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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