Statistics help needed

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OK all you smarty pants...I'm taking Statistics graduate level and I have NO FREAKIN' clue what I'm doing. Anyone think you can help?

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I'd have a 50% chance of being correct with any help

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[PLFKING 3]

Statistically, my pants are no smarter than your pants. They are both inanimate objects, and therefore have no cognitive or teaching talents.

Did you hear the one about the constipated mathematician ?


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Statistically, my pants are no smarter than your pants. They are both inanimate objects, and therefore have no cognitive or teaching talents.

Did you hear the one about the constipated mathematician ?


Don

One and one finally made two?

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85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

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85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

That's only true 73.8% of the time though.

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In other words....non of you are any more educated than I am.

Where is Bill when ya need him?

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In other words....non of you are any more educated than I am.

Where is Bill when ya need him?

Why don'tcha just post the question you're needing help with?

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[oldwomanc6 38]

Well, you did set the bar at "smarty-pants". If you had raised it 23.49% you would have been 47.82% assured to have had at least one answer that would have proved this point unequivocally.

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Here is the problem:

Think of a distribution of scores for which the mean is 65.5, the median is 64, the mode is 60, and n = 40. Suppose you later learn that one of the scores is in error. Instead of 70, the score should have been 90. What would be the value for the mean after changing the score of 70 to 90?

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Here is the problem:

Think of a distribution of scores for which the mean is 65.5, the median is 64, the mode is 60, and n = 40. Suppose you later learn that one of the scores is in error. Instead of 70, the score should have been 90. What would be the value for the mean after changing the score of 70 to 90?

66

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So how did you get 66?

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So how did you get 66?

42

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So how did you get 66?

42

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So how did you get 66?

65.5 x 40 = 2620
2620 + 20 = 2640
2640 / 40 = 66

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90 - 70 = 20
20 / 40 = 0.5
0.5 + 65.5 = 66

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So how did you get 66?

42

Thanks for all the fish.

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OK that actually made sense. I knew it would increase but wasn't sure how to determine it and the formula kept showing it going down.

Thank you!

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Here is the problem:

Think of a distribution of scores for which the mean is 65.5, the median is 64, the mode is 60, and n = 40. Suppose you later learn that one of the scores is in error. Instead of 70, the score should have been 90. What would be the value for the mean after changing the score of 70 to 90?

66

agreed. now he'll probably want an explanation too...

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65.5 X 40 = 2,620

2,620 + 20 (the difference between the score of 70, corrected to be 90) = 2,640

2,640/40 = 66

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Elementary teachers do not think above the whole add, subtract, multiply, or divide stage. I'm having to wrap my head around this stuff.

Thanks for your help!

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[JerryBaumchen 1,047]

Hi mouth,

At 42+ yrs ago, I am not of much help.

However, on the first day of class the instuctor said that 0% and 100% do not exist, everything will be in between those two numbers.

He was probably the smartest mathamatician I have ever known.

JerryBaumchen

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OK that actually made sense. I knew it would increase but wasn't sure how to determine it and the formula kept showing it going down.

Thank you!

It all goes back to the definition of each of those values. The mean is the average: all values added together, then divided by the numbers in the set (n). You add 20 to the total because it's the difference of the incorrect value from the correct (higher) one. If you need the extra step, essentially once you get the sum of all the scores (65.5x40), you "take out" the incorrect value (-70) and replace it with the correct one (+90).

With the information given, you would not be able to find the new median.

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OK that actually made sense. I knew it would increase but wasn't sure how to determine it and the formula kept showing it going down.

Thank you!

It all goes back to the definition of each of those values. The mean is the average: all values added together, then divided by the numbers in the set (n). You add 20 to the total because it's the difference of the incorrect value from the correct (higher) one. If you need the extra step, essentially once you get the sum of all the scores (65.5x40), you "take out" the incorrect value (-70) and replace it with the correct one (+90).

With the information given, you would not be able to find the new median.

Yes, but you would only have to know the position that the replaced "70" occupied in the sequence. The median will still be 64 unless a "70" was #21 in the sequence and it was the only "70" in the string. (since 64 is simply the average of the middle two numbers).

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OK that actually made sense. I knew it would increase but wasn't sure how to determine it and the formula kept showing it going down.

Thank you!

It all goes back to the definition of each of those values. The mean is the average: all values added together, then divided by the numbers in the set (n). You add 20 to the total because it's the difference of the incorrect value from the correct (higher) one. If you need the extra step, essentially once you get the sum of all the scores (65.5x40), you "take out" the incorrect value (-70) and replace it with the correct one (+90).

With the information given, you would not be able to find the new median.

Yes, but you would only have to know the position that the replaced "70" occupied in the sequence. The median will still be 64 unless a "70" was #21 in the sequence and it was the only "70" in the string. (since 64 is simply the average of the middle two numbers).

Ah yes, good point, since "n" is even.

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