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Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean

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Chapter 13, Problem 83H

The American League and the National League of Major League Baseball are each divided into three divisions: East, Central, and West. Many years, fans talk about some divisions being stronger (having better teams) than other divisions. This may have consequences for the post season. For instance, in 2012 Tampa Bay won 90 games and did not play in the post season, while Detroit won only 88 and did play in the post season. This may have been an oddity, but is there good evidence that in the 2012 season, the American League divisions were significantly different in overall records? Use the following data to test whether the mean number of wins per team in the three American League divisions were the same or not. Note that the data are not balanced, as two divisions had five teams, while one had only four.

Division	Team	Wins
East	Yankees	95
East	Baltimore	93
East	Tampa Bay	90
East	Toronto	73
East	Boston	69

Table 13.38

Division	Team	Wins
Central	Detroit	88
Central	Chicago Sox	85
Central	Kansas City	72
Central	Cleveland	68
Central	Minnesota	66

Table 13.39

Division	Team	Wins
West	Oakland	94
West	LA Angels	93
West	Texas	89
West	Seattle	75

Table 13.40

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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