Understandable Statistics: Concepts and Methods
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Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3, Problem 8CRP
Agriculture: Harvest Weight of Maize The following data represent weights in kilograms of maize harvest from a random sample of 72 experimental plots on St. Vincent, an island in the Caribbean (Reference: B. G. F. Springer, Proceedings, Caribbean Food Corps. Soc., Vol. 10, pp. 147–152). Note: These data are also available for download at the Companion Sites for this text. For convenience, the data are presented in increasing order.
- (a) Compute the five-number summary.
- (b) Compute the
interquartile range . - (c) Make a box-and-whisker plot.
- (d) Interpretation Discuss the distribution. Does the lower half of the distribution show more data spread than the upper half?
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