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Q: The PGA TOUR provides various statistics on performance of players in the

The PGA TOUR provides various statistics on performance of players in the Professional Golfers’ Association of America. For the week ending September 9, 2013, the year-to-date leader for longest avera...

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Q: How is a normal probability plot used to detect outliers?

How is a normal probability plot used to detect outliers?

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Q: Explain in detail what a normal probability plot is and how it

Explain in detail what a normal probability plot is and how it is used to assess the normality of a variable.

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Q: Explain why assessing the normality of a variable is often important.

Explain why assessing the normality of a variable is often important.

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Q: Under what circumstances is using a normal probability plot to assess the

Under what circumstances is using a normal probability plot to assess the normality of a variable usually better than using a histogram, stem-and-leaf diagram, or dotplot?

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Q: Express the kth percentile, Pk, of a normally distributed variable

Express the kth percentile, Pk, of a normally distributed variable in terms of its mean, μ, and standard deviation, σ.

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Q: Express the quartiles, Q1, Q2, and Q3, of

Express the quartiles, Q1, Q2, and Q3, of a normally distributed variable in terms of its mean, μ, and standard deviation, σ.

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Q: Let 0 <α< 1. For a normally distributed variable

Let 0

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Q: Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Arizona, keeps records of emergency

Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Arizona, keeps records of emergency room traffic. Those records reveal that the times between arriving patients have a mean of 8.7 minutes with a standard deviation...

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Q: The rare booted eagle of western Europe was the focus of a

The rare booted eagle of western Europe was the focus of a study by S. Suarez et al. to identify optimal nesting habitat for this raptor. According to their paper “Nesting Habitat Selection by Booted...

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