Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)

13th Edition

ISBN: 9780134506593

Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 5.3, Problem 5.16LM

Suppose a random sample of n = 25 measurements is selected from a population with mean µ and standard deviation σ. For each of the following values of µ and σ, give the values of μ x ¯ and σ x ¯ .

a. µ = 10, σ = 3
b. µ, = 100, σ = 25
c. µ − 20, σ − 40
d. µ = 10, σ = 100

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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