Concept explainers
a.
Construct a dotplot of the distribution of penalty minutes for the original sample of 24 players.
Elucidate about the shape, paying attention to the skewness and possible outliers.
b.
Identify the mean and standard deviation of the penalty minute values for the original sample.
c.
Create a bootstrap distribution for the mean penalty minutes for samples of size 24 using StatKey.
Elucidate about the shape of the bootstrap distribution in comparison with the shape of the original sample.
d.
Identify the standard deviation of the bootstrap sample and compare the value with the original sample.
e.
Obtain the 95% confidence interval for the mean penalty minutes of NHL players.
f.
State the reason that it may not be reasonable to use the players on one team as a sample of all players in a league.
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