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MATH 533 Entire Course (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.math533rank.com MATH 533 Week 1
Homework MATH 533 Week 1 Quiz MATH 533 Week 2 DQ
1 Case Let's Make a Deal MATH 533 Week 2 Homework
(2 Sets) MATH 533 Week 2 Quiz MATH 533 Week 3 DQ
1 Ethics in Statistics Readings and
Discussion MATH 533 Week 3 Homework MATH 533 Week
3 Quiz (2 Sets) MATH 533 Week 4 DQ 1 Case
Statistics in Action Medicare Fraud
Investigations MATH 533 Week 4 Homework
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MATH 533 Final Exam Set 1 (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.math533rank.com 1. (TCO D)
PuttingPeople2Work has a growing business placing
out-of-work MBAs. They claim they can place a
client in a job in their field in less than 36
weeks. You are given the following data from a
sample. Sample size 100 Population standard
deviation 5 Sample mean 34.2 Formulate a
hypothesis test to evaluate the claim. (Points
10) Ans. b. H0 must always have equal sign, lt
36 weeks 2. (TCO B) The Republican party is
interested in studying the number of republicans
that might vote in a particular congressional
district. Assume that the number of voters is
binomially distributed by party affiliation
(either republican or not republican).
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MATH 533 Final Exam Set 2 (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.math533rank.com 1. (TCO A) Seventeen
salespeople reported the following number of
sales calls completed last month. 72 93
82 81 82 97
102 107 119 86 88 91
83 93 73 100
102 a. Compute the mean, median, mode,
and standard deviation, Q1, Q3, Min, and Max for
the above sample data on number of sales calls
per month. b. In the context of this situation,
interpret the Median, Q1, and Q3. (Points
33) a. b. Median of the above
sales calls means that if all the sales calls
data points are arranged in an ascending order,
then 91 Nos. of calls made would fall in the
middle. So, there are as 8 sales calls
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MATH 533 Week 1 Homework (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
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table to the right. 2. In one university,
language incorporated a 10-week extensive reading
program to improve students Japanese reading
comprehension. The professors collected 267 books
originally written for Japanese children and
required their students to read at least 40 of
them as part of the grade in the course. The
books were categorized into reading levels
(color-coded for easy selection) according to
length and complexity. Complete parts a through
c. 3. Convert the relative frequency bar
graph into a Pareto diagram. Interpret the graph.
Choose the correct graph below. 4. Consider
the stem-and-leaf display to the right.
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MATH 533 Week 1 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.math533rank.com 1. Graph the relative
frequency histogram for the 300 measurements
summarized in the relative frequency table to the
right. 2. Would you expect the data sets
that follow to possess relative frequency
distributions that are symmetric, skewed to the
right, or skewed to the left? Explain. Complete
parts a through c below. 3. Consider the
following sample of five measurements. 3, 4, 5,
2, 6 4. MINITAB was used to generate the
histogram to the right. 5. A universitys
language professors incorporated a 10-week
extensive reading program into a second-semester
Japanese language course in an effort to improve
students Japanese reading comprehension.
Fourteen students participated in this reading
program. Complete parts a through c.
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MATH 533 Week 2 DQ 1 Case Let's Make a Deal
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A number of years ago, there was a popular
television game show called Let's Make a Deal.
The host, Monty Hall, would randomly select
contestants from the audience and, as the title
suggests, he would make deals for prizes.
Contestants would be given relatively modest
prizes and then would be offered the opportunity
to risk that prize to win better ones. Suppose
you are a contestant on this show. Monty has just
given you a free trip worth 500 to a locale that
is of little interest to you. He now offers you a
trade Give up the trip in exchange for a gamble.
On the stage are three curtains, A, B, and C.
Behind one of them is a brand-new car worth
45,000. Behind the other two curtains, the stage
is empty.
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MATH 533 Week 2 Homework (2 Sets) (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.math533rank.com 1. The
table to the right gives a breakdown of 2,149
civil cases that were appealed. The outcome of
the appeal, as well as the type of trial (judge
or jury), was determined for each case. Suppose
one of the cases is selected at random and the
outcome of the appeal and type of trial are
observed. 2. Zoologists investigated the
likelihood of fallow deer bucks during the mating
season. Researchers recorded 163 encounters
between two bucks, one of which clearly initiated
the encounter with the other. In these 163
initiated encounters, the zoologists kept track
or not a physical contact fight occurred and
whether the initiator ultimately won or lost the
encounter. Suppose we select one of these 163
encounters and note the outcome (fight status and
winner). Complete parts a through c.
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MATH 533 Week 2 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.math533rank.com 1. A countrys
government has devoted considerable funding to
missile defense research over the past 20 years.
The latest development is the Space-Based
Infrared System (SBIRS), which uses satellite
imagery to detect and track missiles. The
probability that an intruding object (e.g., a
missile) will be detected on a flight track by
SBIRS is 0.6. Consider a sample of 10 simulated
tracks, each with an intruding object. Let x
equal the number of these tracks where SBIRS
detects the object. Complete parts a through
d. 2. According to a consumer survey of
young adults (18-24 years of age) who shop
online, 18 own mobile phone with internet
access. In a random sample of 200 young adults
who shop online, let x be the numbers who own a
mobile phone with internet access.
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MATH 533 Week 3 DQ 1 Ethics in Statistics
Readings and Discussion (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
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study ethics in statistics? Have you seen
statistics misused? Without naming specific
companies or people, can you provide
examples? Please find (on the Internet or from
the Keller library) and post an article regarding
ethics and statistics. Please attach the article,
or provide its link in your post, together with a
brief summary of the article in your own words.
Be sure to use quotation marks around any words
taken directly from the article (not to do so
constitutes plagiarism). Then, in a separate
post, review one or more articles posted by other
students and provide the other student or
students with your reflections (dont just agree
or disagree).
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MATH 533 Week 3 Homework (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
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mileage for a hybrid car is 56 miles per gallon.
Suppose that the gasoline mileage is
approximately normally distributed with a
standard deviation of 3.3 miles per gallon. 2.
The ages of a group of 50 women are
approximately normally distributed with a mean of
49 years and a standard deviation of 5 years. One
woman is randomly selected from the group, and
her age is observed. 3. Resource Reservation
Protocol (RSVP) was originally designed to
establish signaling links for stationary
networks. RSVP was applied to mobile wireless
technology. A simulation study revealed that the
transmission delay (measured in milliseconds) of
an RSVP linked wireless device has an approximate
normal distribution with mean µ 49.5
milliseconds and milliseconds. Complete parts a
and b.
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MATH 533 Week 3 Quiz (2 Sets) (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.math533rank.com 1. The
average salary for a certain profession is
97,000. Assume that the standard deviation of
such salaries is 33,500. Consider a random
sample of 54 people in this profession and let x
represent the mean salary for the sample. 2.
Almost all companies utilize some type of
year-end performance review for their employees.
Human Resources (HR) at a universitys Health
Science Center provides guidelines for
supervisors rating their subordinates. For
example, raters are advised to examine their
ratings for a tendency to be either too lenient
or too harsh. According to HR, if you have this
tendency, consider using a normal
distribution-----10 of employees (rated)
exemplary, 20 distinguished, 40 competent, 20
marginal, and 10 unacceptable
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MATH 533 Week 4 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
Medicare Fraud Investigations (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.math533rank.com Read the
selection in your textbook pertaining to the
Case Statistics in Action Medicare Fraud
Investigations load the data set for the case,
MCFRAUD, into Minitab answer the question about
the case in the Discussion area and likewise
read and respond to the follow-on selections in
the textbook for the case in the Statistics in
Action Revisited. What is a point estimate of the
mean overpayment?
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MATH 533 Week 4 Homework (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
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workers who use latex gloves with glove powder on
a daily basis are particularly susceptible to
developing a latex allergy. Each in a sample of
43 hospital employees who were diagnosed with a
latex allergy based on a skin-prick test reported
on their exposure to latex gloves. Summary
statistics for the number of latex gloves used
per week are x 19.4 and s 12.3. Complete
parts (a) (d). 2. The white wood material
used for the roof of an ancient temple is
imported from a certain country. The wooden roof
must withstand as much as 100 centimeters of snow
in the winter. Architects at a university
conducted a study to estimate the mean bending
strength of the white wood roof. A sample of 25
pieces of the imported wood were tested and
yielded the statistics x 74.9 and s 10.8 on
breaking strength of the white wood with a 99
confidence interval. Interpret the result.
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MATH 533 Week 4 Quiz (2 Sets) (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.math533rank.com 1. A
random samples of 1020 satellite radio
subscribers were asked, Do you have a satellite
radio receiver in your car? The survey found
that 102 subscribers did, in fact, have a
satellite receiver in their car. 2. Each
child in a sample of 64 low-income children was
administered a language and communication exam.
The sentence complexity scores had a mean of 7.62
and a standard deviation of 8.91. Complete parts
a through d. 3. In a sample of 60 stores of
a certain company,
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MATH 533 Week 5 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
Diary of a Kleenex User (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.math533rank.com Read the selection in
your text book pertaining to the Case Statistics
in Action Diary of a Kleenex User load the
data set for the case, TISSUES, into Minitab
answer the question about the case in the
Discussion area and likewise read and respond to
the follow-on selections in the textbook for the
case in the Statistics in Action Revisited. How
would you briefly summarize the case, and the
data that was generated?
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MATH 533 Week 5 Homework (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
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90,000 first-time candidates for an exam found
that the number of semester hours of college
credit taken by the sampled candidates is
summarized by x 145.72 and s 18.53. A
professor claims that the true mean number of
semester hours of college credit taken is 145. 2.
A study of n 59 hospital employees found
that the number of latex gloves used per week by
the sampled worker is summarized by x 21.2 and
s 13.1. Let µ represent the mean number of
latex gloves used per week by all hospital
employees. Consider testing 3. The final
scores of games of a certain sport were compared
against the final point spreads established by
oddsmakers. The difference between the game
outcome and point spread (called a point-spread
error) was calculated for 255 games.
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MATH 533 Week 5 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.math533rank.com 1. A group of
professors investigated first-year college
students knowledge of astronomy. One concept of
interest was the Big Bang Theory of the creation
of the universe. In a sample 0f 141 freshman
students, 35 believed that the Big Bang Theory
accurately described the creation of plantery
systems. Baesd on this information, is it correct
at the a 0.01 level of significance to state
that more than 20 of all freshman college
students believe the Big Bang theory describes
the creation of planetary systems? 2. A
study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness
of a new mosquito repellent designed by the U.S.
Army to be applied as camouflage face paint. The
repellent was applied to the forearms of 5
volunteers who then were exposed to 15 active
mosquitos for a 10-hour period. The percentage of
the forearm surface area protected from bites
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MATH 533 Week 6 Course Project Part B Hypothesis
Testing and Confidence Intervals (SALESCALL
Project) (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.math533rank.com Your Instructor will provide
you with four manager speculations, a.-d., in the
Doc Sharing file. Using the sample data, perform
the hypothesis test for each of the above
situations in order to see if there is evidence
to support your managers belief in each case
a.-d. In each case use the Seven Elements of a
Test of Hypothesis, in Section 6.2 of your text
book, using the a provided by your Instructor in
the Doc Sharing materials, and explain your
conclusion in simple terms. Also be sure to
compute the p-value and interpret. Follow this up
with computing confidence intervals (the required
confidence level will be provided by your
Instructor) for each of the variables described
in a.-d., and again interpreting these intervals.
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MATH 533 Week 6 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
Legal AdvertisingDoes It Pay? (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.math533rank.com Read the Case
Statistics In Action Legal AdvertisingDoes It
Pay?, and answer the following questions. (The
case is included in your textbook, Chapter 10.)
The data set for the case study is LEGALADV, and
it is available in your textbook resources, so
you don't have to enter the data! Summarize what
the case is about, and what the variables
represent.
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MATH 533 Week 6 Homework (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
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printout relating the size of the diamond (number
of carats) to the asking price (dollars) for 308
diamonds is shown below. Complete parts a through
e. 2. The average driving distance (yards)
and driving accuracy (percent of drives that land
in the fairway) for 8 golfers are recorded in the
table to the right. Complete parts a through e
below. 3. Many entrepreneurs have donated
money to various causes. Data on the total amount
pledged and remaining net worth for the 10 top
donors are given in the table. Complete parts a
through d. 4. A magazine reported the
average charge and the averege length of hospital
stay for patients in a sample of 7 regions. The
printout is shown below. Complete parts a through
e.
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MATH 533 Week 6 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
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formed by students to protest labor exploitation
in the apparel industry. There were 18 student
sit-ins for a sweet-free campus organized at
several universities. Data were collected for the
duration (in days) of each sit-in, as well as the
number of student arrests. The data for 5 sit-ins
in which there was at least one arrest and the
results of a simple linear regression are found
below. Let y be the number of arrests and x be
the duration. Complete parts a through d.
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MATH 533 Week 7 Course Project Part C Regression
and Correlation Analysis (SALESCALL Project)
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Your Instructor will specify for you the
dependent variable and the independent variables
in your Case and data. Using MINITAB perform the
regression and correlation analysis for the data
by answering the following. Generate a
scatterplot for the specified dependent variable
and the specified independent variable, including
the graph of the "best fit" line.
Interpret. Determine the equation of the "best
fit" line, which describes the relationship
between the dependent variable and the selected
independent variable. Determine the coefficient
of correlation. Interpret.
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MATH 533 Week 7 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
Bid-Rigging in the Highway Construction Industry
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Read the Case Statistics in Action Bid-Rigging
in the Highway Construction Industry, in Chapter
11 of your textbook, and answer the following
questions. The data set, FLAG, for the case study
is available in the publishers website, so you
dont need to enter the data into Minitab by
hand. What is this case about? Describe the key
variables.
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MATH 533 Week 7 Homework (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.math533rank.com 1. Researchers
developed a safety performance function (SPF),
which estimates the probability of occurrence of
a crash for a given segment of roadway. Using
data on over 100 segments of roadway, they fit
the model E(y) , where y number of
crashes per three years, roadway length
(miles), and average annual daily traffic
(number of vehicles) AADT. 2. The data
shown below represent the annual earnings (y),
age (, and hours worked per day (x2) for a
random sample of street vendors in a certain.
Complete parts a through f. 3. Data on the
average annual precipitation (y), altitude (x1),
latitude (x2), and distance from the coast (x3)
for a particular state were collected for 10
meteorological stations. The observations are
listed in the table below. Consider the
first-order model y , e. Complete parts
a through c.
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MATH 533 Week 7 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.math533rank.com 1. Data on the average
annual precipitation (y), altitude (x1), latitude
(x2), and distance from the coast (x3) for a
particular state were collected for 10
meteorological stations. The observations are
listed in the table below. Consider the
first-order model y , e. Complete parts
a through c. 2. Researchers developed a
safety performance function (SPF), which
estimates the probability of occurrence of a
crash for a given segment of roadway. Using data
on over 100 segments of roadway, they fit the
model E(y) , where y number of crashes
per three years, x1 roadway length (miles), and
x2 average annual daily traffic (number of
vehicles) AADT. 3. The data shown below
represent the annual earnings (y), age (x1), and
hours worked per day (x2) for a random sample of
street vendors in a certain city. Complete parts
a through f.
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