Introductory Statistics (10th Edition)
10th Edition
ISBN: 9780321989178
Author: Neil A. Weiss
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8.2, Problem 94E
Doing Time. The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics provides information on prison sentences in the document National Corrections Reporting Program. A random sample of 20 maximum sentences for murder yielded the data, in months, presented on the WeissStats site. Use the technology of your choice to do the following.
- a. Find a 95% confidence interval for the
mean maximum sentence of all murders. Assume a population standard deviation of 30 months. - b. Obtain a normal
probability plot, boxplot, histogram, and stem- and-leaf diagram of the data. - c. Remove the outliers (if any) from the data, and then repeat part (a).
- d. Comment on the advisability of using the z-interval procedure on these data.
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