Understandable Statistics: Concepts and Methods

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ISBN: 9781337119917

Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Ecology: Sand Dunes At wind speeds above 1000 centimeters per second (cm/sec), significant sand-moving events begin to occur. Wind speeds below 1000 cm/sec deposit sand, and wind speeds above 1000 cm/sec move sand to new locations. The cyclic nature of wind and moving sand determines the shape and location of large dunes (Reference: Hydraulic, Geologic, and Biologic Research at Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Vicinity, Colorado, Proceedings of the National Park Service Research Symposium). At a test site, the prevailing direction of the wind did not change noticeably. However, the velocity did change. Sixty wind speed readings gave an average velocity of x ¯ = 1075 cm/sec. Based on long-term experience, σ can be assumed to be 265 cm/sec.

(a) Find a 95% confidence interval for the population mean wind speed at this site.
(b) Interpretation Does the confidence interval indicate that the population mean wind speed is such that the sand is always moving at this site? Explain.

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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