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ISBN: 9781938168208

Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean

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Chapter 13, Problem 67H

Use the following information to answer the next two exercises. Table 13.23 lists the number of pages in four different

types of magazines.

home decorating	news	health	computer
172	87	82	104
286	94	153	136
163	123	87	98
205	106	103	207
197	101	96	146

Table 13.23

Eliminate one magazine type that you now feel has a mean length different from the others. Redo the hypothesis test,

testing that the remaining three means are statistically the same. Use a new solution sheet. Based on this test, are the mean

lengths for the remaining three magazines statistically the same?

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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