Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel: Updated for Office 2007

168 Fundamentals of Statistics 5 Click Outliers from the list of subject titles. If there are any moderate or extreme outliers i ...

Chapter 4 Describing Your Data 169 6 Click The whiskers from the list of subject titles. The fi nal component of the boxplot are ...

170 Fundamentals of Statistics Figure 4-31 shows how a boxplot might look for distributions with posi- tive or negative skewness ...

Chapter 4 Describing Your Data 171 To create your own boxplot: 1 Click Create your own boxplot from the list of topics in the Bo ...

172 Fundamentals of Statistics The new sample values appear in the boxplot as moderate and extreme outliers respectively. From t ...

Chapter 4 Describing Your Data 173 To create a boxplot of the price data: 1 Click Single Variable Charts from the StatPlus menu ...

174 Fundamentals of Statistics The boxplot gives us yet another visual picture of our data. Note that the three extreme prices i ...

Chapter 4 Describing Your Data 175 Exercises Defi ne the following terms: a. Quantitative variable b. Qualitative variable c. ...

176 Fundamentals of Statistics e. Create a boxplot of the size of the homes in square feet. Place the boxplot in a chart sheet n ...

Chapter 4 Describing Your Data 177 companies is more similar in terms of size: a company totaling $50,000,000 in annual sales an ...

178 Fundamentals of Statistics You’ve been given an Excel workbook containing annual salary fi gures for ma- jor league basebal ...

Chapter 4 Describing Your Data 179 d. Does there appear to be any relation- ship between these illnesses and the level of cigare ...

180 Fundamentals of Statistics e. Reaction times are important for de- termining whether a runner has false- started. If the run ...

Chapter 4 Describing Your Data 181 f. Save your workbook and write a re- port summarizing your investigation and observations. ...

182 Chapter 5 PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS Objectives In this chapter you will learn to: Work with random variables and probability ...

Chapter 5 Probability Distributions 183 U p to now, you’ve used tools such as frequency tables, descriptive statistics, and scat ...

184 Fundamentals of Statistics Early in the experiment, the relative frequency of heads jumps around quite a bit, hovering above ...

Chapter 5 Probability Distributions 185 Discrete Probability Distributions In a discrete probability distribution, the probabili ...

186 Fundamentals of Statistics To fi nd the probability of a set of discrete events, we simply add up the individual probabiliti ...

Chapter 5 Probability Distributions 187 The probability associated with a range of values is equal to the area un- der the PDF c ...