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Assignment 2
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Write your solution on the same paper. Don’t use any other papers.
Question 1
For a sample of size 15 women, here are the numbers of their children:
3 5 2 1 4 3 5 4 0 1 2 6 4 0 2
2. The distribution for males is negatively skewed while that for females is positively skewed.
3. The distribution for males has a higher degree of skewness than that for females.
Question 3
While collecting preliminary data for a future study, investigators determined the length of
hospital stay for 9 patients who received a new drug following surgery. The values in this sample
were 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 4, 5 and 18.
Which of the following is the best measure of central tendency for this sample of data? And then
calculate it.
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Question 4
An investment you made 5 years ago has realized the following rates of return.
Year 1 2 3 4 5
Rate of Return - .15 - .20 .15 -.08 .50
c) Which one of the three statistics computed in parts (a) and (b) best describes the return
over the 5-year period? Explain.