Elementary Statistics Using The Ti-83/84 Plus Calculator, Books A La Carte Edition (5th Edition)
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Chapter 7.1, Problem 1BSC
Poll Results in the Media USA Today provided results from a poll of 1000 adults who were asked to identify their favorite pie. Among the 1000 respondents, 14% chose chocolate pie, and the margin of error was given as ±4 percentage points. What important feature of the poll was omitted?
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4. Suppose that P(X = 1) = P(X = -1) = 1/2, that Y = U(-1, 1) and that X
and Y are independent.
(a) Show, by direct computation, that X + Y = U(-2, 2).
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(c) Which well-known trigonometric formula did you discover?
9. The concentration function of a random variable X is defined as
Qx(h) = sup P(x ≤ X ≤x+h), h>0.
x
(a) Show that Qx+b (h) = Qx(h).
(b) Is it true that Qx(ah) =aQx(h)?
(c) Show that, if X and Y are independent random variables, then
Qx+y (h) min{Qx(h). Qy (h)).
To put the concept in perspective, if X1, X2, X, are independent, identically
distributed random variables, and S₁ = Z=1Xk, then there exists an absolute
constant, A, such that
A
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Some references: [79, 80, 162, 222], and [204], Sect. 1.5.
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Suppose that a mound-shaped data set has a
must mean of 10 and standard deviation of 2.
a. About what percentage of the data should
lie between 6 and 12?
b. About what percentage of the data should
lie between 4 and 6?
c. About what percentage of the data should
lie below 4?
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Elementary Statistics Using The Ti-83/84 Plus Calculator, Books A La Carte Edition (5th Edition)
Ch. 7.1 - Poll Results in the Media USA Today provided...Ch. 7.1 - Prob. 3BSCCh. 7.1 - Constructing and Interpreting Confidence...Ch. 7.1 - Prob. 17BSCCh. 7.1 - Critical Thinking. In Exercises 17-28, use the...Ch. 7.1 - Critical Thinking. In Exercises 17-28. use the...Ch. 7.2 - Prob. 1BSCCh. 7.2 - Prob. 9BSCCh. 7.2 - Prob. 14BSCCh. 7.2 - Prob. 19BSC
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