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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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The Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The sinking caused more than 1,500 passengers and crew to die, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The Titanic catastrophe is not only famous for the movie, but also it allows several types of statistical analyses, and is therefore a popular case study in statistics texts. One of these analyses focuses on the following question: who survived the sinking? "Women and children first" is a code of conduct dating from 1852, whereby the lives of women and children were to be saved first in a life-threatening situation, typically abandoning ship, when survival resources such as lifeboats were limited. But is it indeed true that women and children had the best perspectives to survive? This data set has the survival data for the passengers on the Titanic. Also, for each person, the data set indicates if they were an adult or child, their gender, and the class they were staying in.

What type of data does this data set contain?

A. All quantitative data

B. All categorical data

C. Both quantitative and categorical data

What method of data collection has been used?

A. Retrospective observational study

B. Anecdote

C. Prospective observational study

D. Experiment

Do these data represent a sample of a population, or the population itself?

A. Sample

B. Population