Chapter 6: Q.6.119 (page 283)
How is a normal probability plot used to detect outliers?
Short Answer
The outlier is seen in the usual probability plot.
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Chapter 6: Q.6.119 (page 283)
How is a normal probability plot used to detect outliers?
The outlier is seen in the usual probability plot.
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Gibson Song Duration. A preliminary behavioral study of the Jingdong black gibbon, a primate endemic to the Wuliang Mountains in China, found that the mean song bout duration in the wet season is 12.59 minutes with a standard deviation of 5.31 minutes. [SOURCE: L. Shecran et al.. "Preliminary Report on the Behavior of the Jingdong Black Gibbon. Tropical Biodiversity, Vol, 5(2). Pp. 113-125] Assuming that song bout is normally distributed, determine the percentage of song bouts that have durations within
a. one standard deviation to either side of the mean.
b. two standard deviations to either side of the mean.
C. three standard deviations to either side of the mean.
Gestation Periods of Humans. mean of 266 days and a standard deviation of 16 days.
a. Use the technology of your choice to simulate four random samples of 50 human gestation periods each.
b. Obtain a normal probability plot of each sample in part (a).
c. Are the normal probability plots in part (b) what you expected? Explain your answer.
In the paper "Cloudiness: Note on a Novel Case of Frequency" (Procedings of the Royul Sociery of London, Vol. . pp.), K. Pearson examined data on daily degree of cloudiness, on a scale of 0 to 10 , at Breslau (Wroclaw), Poland, during the decade . A frequency distribution of the data is presented in the following table.

a. Draw a frequency histogram of these degree-of-cloudiness data.
b. Based on your histogram, do you think that degree of cloudiness in Breslau during the decade in question is approximately normally distributed? Explain your answer.
13. What key fact permits you to determine percentages for a normally distributed variable by first converting to scores and then determining the corresponding area under the standard normal curve?
A variable is normally distributed with mean and standard deviation .
Part (a): Determine and interpret the quartiles of the variable.
Part (b) Obtain and interpret the percentile.
Part (c) Find the value that of all possible values of the variable exceed.
Part (d) Find the two values that divide the area under the corresponding normal curve into a middle area of and two outside areas of . Interpret your answer.
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