The National Endowment for the Humanities sponsors summer
institutes to improve the skills of high school...
The National Endowment for the Humanities sponsors summer
institutes to improve the skills of high school teachers of foreign
languages. At the beginning of the period, the teachers were given
the Modern Language Association’s listening test of understanding
of spoken French. A random sample of 15 teachers’ test score was
collected. After 4 weeks of immersion in French in and out of
class, the listening test was given again. From the second test
results, another 15 3 teachers’ test scores...
20 women and 30 men between 18 to 60 years old and the
number of hours...
20 women and 30 men between 18 to 60 years old and the
number of hours that they work. These information would be your
populations. For each group find the followings:
20 Women Ages = 19, 23, 40, 18, 60, 50, 21, 30, 33, 28,
33, 35, 28, 24, 28, 18, 19, 22, 25, 50
20 women work hours weekly = 40, 24, 30, 31, 19, 10, 21,
5, 40, 9, 8, 40, 37, 12, 20, 40, 20, 10, 40,...
Statistics I – First Analysis Project
You are part of a research team that is studying...
Statistics I – First Analysis Project
You are part of a research team that is studying academic
motivation in high school students. A question has arisen regarding
the strength of the relationship between academic motivation and
achievement. Some members of the team believe there is a strong
positive relationship between academic motivation and achievement,
while others don’t think the two variables are related much, if at
all.
To provide some information relevant to this discussion, a small
study was designed....
2) Airline accidents: According to the U.S. National
Transportation Safety Board, the number of airline accidents...
2) Airline accidents: According to the U.S. National
Transportation Safety Board, the number of airline accidents by
year from 1983 to 2006 were 23, 16, 21, 24, 34, 30, 28, 24, 26, 18,
23, 23, 36, 37, 49, 50, 51, 56, 46, 41, 54, 30, 40, and 31.
a. For the sample data, compute the mean and its standard error
(from the standard deviation), and the median.
b. Using R, compute bootstrap estimates of the mean, median and
25% trimmed...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An average of 13% of adults worldwide rated
their lives poorly enough to...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An average of 13% of adults worldwide rated
their lives poorly enough to be considered "suffering," according
to Gallup surveys in 146 countries in 2011. The percentage rating
their current and future lives poorly enough to be considered
suffering was as high as 45% in Bulgaria and as low as 1% or less
in the United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Canada,
Thailand, and Brazil. Gallup classifies respondents as "thriving,"
"struggling," or "suffering" according to how they rate...