Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics
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Author: Lind
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Chapter 3, Problem 8E
For Exercises 7–10, (a) compute the arithmetic mean and (b) indicate whether it is a statistic or a parameter.
8. The accounting department at a mail-order company counted the following numbers of incoming calls per day to the company’s toll-free number during the first 7 days in May: 14, 24, 19, 31, 36, 26, 17.
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