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MHZ4357 Assignment 2
MHZ4357 Assignment 2
Assignment No: 2
Academic Year: 2020/2021 Due Date: Will be notify later
Instructions
Answer all the questions.
Attach the cover page with your answer scripts.
Use both sides of papers when you are answering the assignment.
Please send the answer scripts of your assignment on or before the due date to the
following address.
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(1)(a) Define following terms giving an example for each.
i. Statistic
ii. Parameter
iii. Estimator
iv. Estimate
v. Point estimation
vi. Interval estimation
3.1, 3.5, 3.3, 3.7, 4.5, 4.2, 2.8, 3.9, 3.5, 3.3
(2) (a) A sociologist has predicted that, minimum of 40% votes will receive for
previous president in the upcoming election. A random sample of 200 individuals
from the voting population, 75 state they will likely vote.
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(b) In a chess tournament, average amount of time boys and girls ages 10 through
12 spend for chess game each day and the standard deviation are as follows.
Assume both populations have a normal distribution.
(3) (a) Blood pressure(mm Hg) and sugar level (mg/dL) of 10 cricket players on a
team are as follows;
Blood pressure (X) 186 189 190 192 193 193 198 201 203 205
(i) Construct a scatter plot of sugar level (Y) versus blood pressure (X).
Calculate:
(iv) The estimated blood pressure of a player who measures 208 mg/dL.
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(b)The government surveys 101 randomly selected customers. For each survey
participant, the statistical officer collects the following: annual electric bill (in
dollars) and home size (in square feet). Output from a regression analysis
appears below.
(4) (a) Explain the difference between simple linear regression and multiple linear
regression.
(b) Consider the table below. It shows three performance measures for five
students.
Using least squares regression, develop a regression equation to predict test score,
based on (1) IQ and (2) the number of hours that the student studied.
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