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Chapter 7.3, Problem 33E
The article “Measuring and Understanding the Aging of Kraft Insulating Paper in Power Transformers” (IEEE Electrical Insul. Mag., 1996: 28-34) contained the following observations on degree of polymerization for paper specimens for which viscosity times concentration fell in a certain middle
- a. Construct a boxplot of the data and comment on any interesting features.
- b. Is it plausible that the given sample observations were selected from a
normal distribution ? - c. Calculate a two-sided 95% confidence interval for true average degree of polymerization (as did the authors of the article). Does the interval suggest that 440 is a plausible value for true average degree of polymerization? What about 450?
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