Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321757270
ISBN 13: 978-0-32175-727-2

Chapter 2 - Section 2.2 - Assess Your Understanding - Applying the Concepts - Page 99: 51

Answer

The graphical summary of the provided data is shown below:

Work Step by Step

A graphical summary is created in Minitab and the steps are as follows: Step 1: Enter the provided data under column C1. Step 2: Go to Stat, select basic statistics, and choose Graphical summary. Step 3: A new dialog box is created.Put data of viewing a Web page under graphical variables. Finally, click ok. A graphical summary of the provided data shows that the data is rightly skewed, that is,the values are first increasing and then decreasing. The minimum value in the data set is 4 and the maximum value is 257 that is an outlier. The box plot shows that 185 and 257 are outliers. According to Anderson–Darling Normality test, the p-value 0.005 is less than the significance level. So, the null hypothesis gets rejected and it is concluded that the data does not follow a normal distribution. From the graph, it is concluded that the data is positively skewed and there are two outliers 185 and 257.
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