The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 2 - Describing Distributions with Numbers - Chapter 2 Exercises - Page 68: 2.33b

Answer

With the outlier, the mean and standard deviation were 59.71 and 63.03, respectively. Without the outlier, the mean and standard deviation were 51.25 and 50.97, respectively. Thus, removing the outlier reduces the mean by 8.46 seconds. Also, the standard deviation is reduced by 12.06 seconds.

Work Step by Step

$mean = (21+43+145+68+85+(-29)+90+66+27+110+61+229+(-14)+46+54+77+32+44+92+88+(-81))/21$ $mean = 1254/21$ $mean = 59.71$ $squared deviations (sd) = ((21-59.71)^2+(43-59.71)^2+(145-59.71)^2+(68-59.71)^2+(85-59.71)^2+((-29)-59.71)^2+(90-59.71)^2+(66-59.71)^2+(27-59.71)^2+(110-59.71)^2+(61-59.71)^2+(229-59.71)^2+((-14)-59.71)^2+(46-59.71)^2+(54-59.71)^2+(77-59.71)^2+(32-59.71)^2+(44-59.71)^2+(92-59.71)^2+(88-59.71)^2+((-81)-59.71)^2)/20$ $sd =((-38.71^2)+ (-16.71)^2)+(85.29^2)+(8.29^2)+(25.29^2)+ (-88.71)^2)+(30.29^2)+(6.29^2)+(-32.71)^2)+(50.29^2)+ (1.29^2)+(169.29^2)+((-73.71)^2)+((-13.71)^2)+ ((-5.71)^2)+(17.29^2)+((-27.71)^2)+((-15.71)^2)+ (32.29^2)+(28.29^2)+((-140.71)^2))/20$ $sd = (1498.4641+279.2241+7274.3841+68.7241+639.5841+7869.4641+917.4841+39.5641+1069.9441+2529.0841+1.6641+28659.1041+5433.1641+187.9641+32.6041+298.9441+767.8441+246.8041+1042.6441+800.3241+19799.3041)/20$ $sd = 79456.2861/20$ $sd = 3,972.814$ $ s = \sqrt sd$ $ s = \sqrt 3972.814$ $ s = 63.03$ $mean = (21+43+145+68+85+(-29)+90+66+27+110+61+(-14)+46+54+77+32+44+92+88+(-81))/20$ $mean = 1025/20$ $mean = 51.25$ $squared deviations (sd) = ((21-51.25)^2+(43-51.25)^2+(145-51.25)^2+(68-51.25)^2+(85-51.25)^2+((-29)-51.25)^2+(90-51.25)^2+(66-51.25)^2+(27-51.25)^2+(110-51.25)^2+(61-51.25)^2+((-14)-51.25)^2+(46-51.25)^2+(54-51.25)^2+(77-51.25)^2+(32-51.25)^2+(44-51.25)^2+(92-51.25)^2+(88-51.25)^2+((-81)-51.25)^2)/19$ $sd =((-30.25^2)+ (-8.25)^2)+(93.75^2)+(16.75^2)+(33.75^2)+ (-80.25)^2)+(38.75^2)+(14.75^2)+(-24.25)^2)+(58.75^2)+ (9.75^2)+((-65.25)^2)+((-5.25)^2)+(2.75^2)+(25.75^2)+((-19.25)^2)+((-7.25^2)+(40.75^2)+(36.75^2)+((-132.25)^2))/19$ $sd =(915.0625+68.0625+8789.0625+280.5625+1139.0625+6440.0625+1501.5625+217.5625+588.0625+3451.5625+95.0625+4257.5625+27.5625+7.5625+663.0625+370.5625+52.5625+1660.5625+1350.5625+17490.0625)/19$ $sd = 49365.75/19$ $sd = 2598.19$ $ s = \sqrt sd$ $ s = \sqrt 2598.19$ $ s = 50.97$
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