Chapter 1: Q59E (page 46)
Blood cocaine concentration (mg/L) was determined both for a sample of individuals who had died from cocaine-induced excited delirium (ED) and for a sample of those who had died from a cocaine overdose without excited delirium; survival time for people in both groups was at most 6 hours. The accompanying data was read from a comparative boxplot in the article 鈥淔atal Excited Delirium Following Cocaine Use鈥 (J.
of Forensic Sciences, 1997: 25鈥31).
ED0 0 0 0 .1 .1 .1 .1 .2 .2 .3 .3
.3 .4 .5 .7 .8 1.0 1.5 2.7 2.8
3.5 4.0 8.9 9.2 11.7 21.0
Non-ED0 0 0 0 0 .1 .1 .1 .1 .2 .2 .2
.3 .3 .3 .4 .5 .5 .6 .8 .9 1.0
1.2 1.4 1.5 1.7 2.0 3.2 3.5 4.1
4.3 4.8 5.0 5.6 5.9 6.0 6.4 7.9
8.3 8.7 9.1 9.6 9.9 11.0 11.5
12.2 12.7 14.0 16.6 17.8
a. Determine the medians, fourths, and fourth spreads for the two samples.
b. Are there any outliers in either sample? Any extreme outliers?
c. Construct a comparative boxplot, and use it as a basis for comparing and contrasting the ED and non-ED samples.
Short Answer
a. For ED,
The median value is 0.4.
The lower fourth is 0.1.
The Upper fourth is 2.8.
The fourth spread is 2.7.
For non-ED,
The median value is 1.6.
The lower fourth is 0.3.
The Upper fourth is 7.9.
The fourth spread is 7.6.
b. For ED,
The outliers are 8.9, 9.2,11.7 and 21.
The extreme outliers are 11.7 and 21.
For non-ED,
There are no outliers.
c. The boxplot is represented as,

