3. Describing Data Numerically

The amounts of yearly rainfall in Miami over the last $5$ years are an example of which type of data?

In Exercises 1–5, refer to the following list of numbers of years that deceased U.S. presidents, popes, and British monarchs lived after their inauguration, election, or coronation, respectively. (As of this writing, the last president is George H. W. Bush, the last pope is John Paul II, and the last British monarch is George VI.) Assume that the data are samples from larger populations.

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Exploring the Data Include appropriate units in all answers.

d. Are there any obvious outliers?

Outlier Refer to the accompanying Minitab-generated scatterplot.

b. After identifying the 10 pairs of coordinates corresponding to the 10 points, find the value of the correlation coefficient r and determine whether there is a linear correlation.

Drawing a Box-and-Whisker Plot In Exercises 15–18,

(a) find the five-number summary

2 7 1 3 1 2 8 9 9 2 5 4 7 3 7 5 4

2 3 5 9 5 6 3 9 3 4 9 8 8 2 3 9 5

Building Basic Skills and Vocabulary

Describe the relationship between quartiles and percentiles.

In Exercises 1–5, refer to the following list of numbers of years that deceased U.S. presidents, popes, and British monarchs lived after their inauguration, election, or coronation, respectively. (As of this writing, the last president is George H. W. Bush, the last pope is John Paul II, and the last British monarch is George VI.) Assume that the data are samples from larger populations.

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Exploring the Data Include appropriate units in all answers.

e. What is the level of measurement of the data (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)?