Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321997838
Author: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2.4, Problem 46PB
Sick leave A company decides to investigate the amount of sick leave taken by its employees. A sample of eight employees yields the following numbers of days of sick leave taken in the past year:
0 0 4 0 0 0 6 0
- a. Find and interpret the
range . - b. Find and interpret the standard deviation s.
- c. Suppose the 6 was incorrectly recorded and is supposed to be 60. Redo parts a and b with the corrected data and describe the effect of this outlier.
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