Introduction To Probability And Statistics
15th Edition
ISBN: 9781337554428
Author: Mendenhall, William.
Publisher: Cengage Learning,
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Chapter 1.1, Problem 23E
Parking on Campus Six vehicles selected from a campus vehicle database are shown in the table.
a. What are the experimental units?
b. List the variables that are being measured. What types are they?
c. Is this univariate, bivariate, or multivariate data?
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