June 2011
Beginner to intermediate
744 pages
25h 11m
English
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2.6 Exercises
2.1 Give three additional commonly used statistical measures that are not already illustrated in this chapter for the characterization of data dispersion. Discuss how they can be computed efficiently in large databases.
2.2 Suppose that the data for analysis includes the attribute age. The age values for the data tuples are (in increasing order) 13, 15, 16, 16, 19, 20, 20, 21, 22, 22, 25, 25, 25, 25, 30, 33, 33, 35, 35, 35, 35, 36, 40, 45, 46, 52, 70.
(a) What is the mean of the data? What is the median?
(b) What is the mode of the data? Comment on the data’s modality (i.e., bimodal, trimodal, etc.).
(c) What is the midrange of the data?
(d) Can you find (roughly) the first quartile (Q1) and the third quartile (Q3) of the data? ...
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