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Chapter 1: Q.1.8. (page 11)
The data are the colors of houses. You sample five houses. The colors of the houses are white, yellow, white, red, and white. What type of data is this?
The colors white, yellow, white, red, and white are qualitative data.
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Studies are often done by pharmaceutical companies to determine the effectiveness of a treatment program. Suppose that a new AIDS antibody drug is currently under study. It is given to patients once the AIDS symptoms have revealed themselves. Of interest is the average (mean) length of time in months patients live once they start the treatment. Two researchers each follow a different set of 40 patients with AIDS from the start of treatment until their deaths. The following data (in months) are collected.
Researcher A:
3; 4; 11; 15; 16; 17; 22; 44; 37; 16; 14; 24; 25; 15; 26; 27; 33; 29; 35; 44; 13; 21; 22; 10; 12; 8; 40; 32; 26; 27; 31; 34; 29; 17; 8; 24; 18; 47; 33; 34
Researcher B:
3; 14; 11; 5; 16; 17; 28; 41; 31; 18; 14; 14; 26; 25; 21; 22; 31; 2; 35; 44; 23; 21; 21; 16; 12; 18; 41; 22; 16; 25; 33; 34; 29; 13; 18; 24; 23; 42; 33; 29
Determine what the key terms refer to in the example for Researcher A.
parameter
A cardiologist is interested in the mean recovery period of her patients who have had heart attacks.
1.16 From Table 1.13, find the number of towns that have rainfall between 2.95 and 9.01 inches
For the following exercises, identify the type of data that would be used to describe a response (quantitative discrete, quantitative continuous, or qualitative), and give an example of the data. brand of toothpaste
1.10 The registrar at State University keeps records of the number of credit hours students complete each semester.
The data he collects are summarized in the histogram. The class boundaries are 10 to less than 13, 13 to less than 16,
16 to less than 19, 19 to less than 22, and 22 to less than 25.
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