Statistics Through Applications
Statistics Through Applications
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ISBN: 9781429219747
Author: Daren S. Starnes, David Moore, Dan Yates
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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Chapter 3, Problem 3.56RE

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To Explain: the shape of the density curve and this shape make sense in this setting.

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Statistics Through Applications, Chapter 3, Problem 3.56RE

By seeing this distribution, it is observed that it is too much skewed to the right or positive skewed which make sense because on an easy level of Sudoku, it is expected that few people would take a very long time to complete the puzzle game, accounting for the long tail on this right skewed distribution.

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To Explain: the author’s performance in a few sentences.

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The author performance is good. He completed the puzzle before 75% of the general population.

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