Essential Statistics (2nd Edition)
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Author: Robert Gould, Colleen N. Ryan, Rebecca Wong
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Compare the means and standard deviations of the birth weights of babies born to smoking and non-smoking mothers.
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To determine
Compare the means and standard deviations after removing the outlier of 896 grams for the smoking mothers and observe the effect after removing the outlier.
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