Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781305115347
Author: Roxy Peck; Chris Olsen; Jay L. Devore
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Chapter 4.1, Problem 1E

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (www.iihs.org, June 11, 2009) published data on repair costs for cars involved in different types of accidents. In one study, seven different 2009 models of mini- and micro-cars were driven at 6 mph straight into a fixed barrier. The following table gives the cost of repairing damage to the bumper for each of the seven models.

Chapter 4.1, Problem 1E, The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (www.iihs.org, June 11, 2009) published data on repair

  1. a. Compute the values of the mean and median.
  2. b. Why are these values so different?
  3. c. Which of the two—mean or median—appears to be better as a description of a typical value for this data set? (Hint: See Example 4.5.)
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