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Ratio life expectancy
Problem 2-3.
Copper content of steel is a variable of interest.
Scale Function
Nominal presence of copper
Ordinal small, medium, high
Interval weight
Ratio percent by weight of steel
2-2
2.3. Graphical Description of Data
Problem 2-4.
250 Central
City
200
Suburban
150
Rural
Population (in
millions)
100
50
0
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
Year
Problem 2-5.
See Problem 2-4 for the area chart. The column chart is as follows:
120 Rural
100 Suburban
80 Central City
Population (in
60
40
millions)
20
0
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 Projection
Year
Assuming that the 295 is future projection, then the best estimates of the proportions would be
those from the last year of record, 1970, which are 34, 38, and 28. This would lead to 100.3,
112.1, and 82.6 for rural, suburban, and central city. It appears from the data of Problem 2-18 that
the proportion of rural is decreasing, the proportion of suburban is increasing, and the central city
is remaining constant. Regression lines by curve fitting could be used to enhance prediction. The
stacked columns figures show the trends side-by-side; whereas the area chart shows the relative
proportions and total numbers.
2-3
Problem 2-6.
Municipal Trash
and Garbage
Industrial
Mining
Agriculture
The pie chart shows clearly the amounts as fractions of the total. The visual image gives a more
lasting sense of the proportions than a tabular summary.
Problem 2-7.
Percent of Core Forested Area of the U.S. by
Region
Northern Region
Rocky Mountain Region
Southwestern Region
Intermountain Region
Pacific Southwest Region
Pacific Northwest Region
Region 7
Southern Region
Eastern Region
Alaska Region
2-4
Problem 2-8.
Petroleum Im ports by Selected Countries Petroleum Im ports by Selected Countries
of Origin, 1970 of Origin, 1980
Total
Persian Gulf Iraq Saudi Arabia Venezuela Canada Mexico United Kingdom Imports
Year Thousand Barrels per Day
1970 121 0 30 989 766 42 11 1,959
1980 1,519 28 1,261 481 455 533 176 4,453
1990 1,966 518 1,339 1,025 934 755 189 6,726
2000 2,488 620 1,572 1,546 1,807 1,373 366 9,772
Through these pie charts, one can clearly see different trends in imports from various countries.
For example, in 1970 the U.S. relied heavily on Venezuela for petroleum imports, but overall there
has been a leveling of imports from various countries (it has become slightly more equal).
2-5
Problem 2-9.
Household Size in 2000
10%
26%
15%
1 Person
2 People
3 People
4 People
5+ People
16%
33%
*Note: The U.S. Family Size was unable to be found because the U.S. Census Bureau finds family
size through household size. Therefore, I used household size.
Source accessed in 2009: http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p20-537.pdf
Excel Table Used for Pie Chart:
Household Size in 2000
Size %
1 Person 10.4
2 People 14.6
3 People 16.4
4 People 33.1
5+ People 25.5
Problem 2-10.
2-6
122 seconds 23
123 seconds 15
124 seconds 12
125 seconds 8
126 seconds 4
127 seconds 3
128 seconds 0
129 seconds 2
130 seconds 2
Problem 2-11.
Eastern Province
Problem 2-12.
Figure 2-3
Bar chart: This chart nicely displays information of total steel production between each quarter and
steel type. This does not necessarily show the total steel production for each quarter but can be
used to compare the total production of each type for each quarter. From this chart it is clear the
total production of each steel type remains close to each other for each type except in the 3rd
quarter when 40 ksi steel is produced at least five times as much as usual.
Figure 2-5a
Column chart: Steel production is shown as a percentage of total steel produced for each quarter.
This chart uses a percentage for comparison and will not show totals. It can be used to show which
steel is produced the most for each quarter and this information can be used to allocate resources
depending on the quarter.
Figure 2-5b
Column chart steel production shows total steel produce for each quarter. This chart quickly shows
which quarter has the greatest total steel produced of all the types of steel combined. This is useful
in determining the most active quarter during the year in terms of total steel produced.
Comparison:
Figure 2-3 is a bar chart showing the steel production by yield strength and quarter. The emphasis
in this chart is on the production for steel type. This is useful to keep track of the production for
both the type and the quarter. Figures 2-5a and 2-5b also show the steel production by yield
strength and quarter. However, the data in these two figures are presented in column charts where
the steel production (dependent variable) is expressed as a percentage of the a total in the first
figure and in tons in the second.
2-7
Problem 2-13.
450 1940
400 1950
350
US Production
1960
300
1970
250
200
150
100
50
0
Surface Mines Underground Mines
Mine Type
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
1940 1950 1960 1970
Mine Type
100%
80%
US Production
Underground Mines
60% Surface Mines
40%
20%
0%
1940 1950 1960
1970
Year
2-8
Problem 2-14.
Data: % in Range
Year Time TimeRange
Range# in 0.15
2009 02:27.5 2:26<x<2:26
3 0.25
2008 02:29.7 2:27<x<2:27
5 0.3
2007 02:28.7 2:28<x<2:28
6 0.2
2006 02:27.8 2:29<x<2:29
4 0
2005 02:28.7 2:30<x<2:30
0 0.05
2004 02:27.5 2:31<x<2:31
1 0.05
2003 02:28.3 2:32<x<2:32
1
2002 02:29.7
2001 02:26.8
2000 02:31.2
1999 02:27.8
1998 02:29.0
1997 02:28.8
1996 02:28.8
1995 02:32.0
1994 02:26.8
1993 02:29.8
1992 02:26.1
1991 02:28.0
1990 02:27.2
Column Chart:
Belmont Stakes Winners 1990-2009
Time Range
Seri…
0 0.2 0.4
% in Time Range
Problem 2-15.
Prestressed Concrete Concrete Steel
30
25
Number
20
15
10
5
0
1989 1990 1991
Year
2-9
Prestressed Concrete Concrete Steel
100%
80%
Percent
60%
40%
20%
0%
1989 1990 1991
Year
Problem 2-16.
y=xb y=ax0.5
X b=0.5 b=1.0 b=1.5 X a=0.5 a=1.0 a=1.5
0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0
0.5 0.707 0.50 0.35 0.5 0.35 0.707 1.06
1.0 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.0 0.5 1 1.5
1.5 1.22 1.50 1.84 1.5 0.61 1.22 1.84
2.0 1.41 2.00 2.83 2.0 0.71 1.41 2.12
y=xb y=ax0.5
3.00 2.5
2.50
2.00 2
b=0.5
1.50 b=1.0
1.5
a=0.5
b=1.5 a=1.
1.00
0
a=1.
5
1
0.50
0.00
0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 0.5
0
0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0
Observations: (1) the coefficient a scales the y-axis, with the magnitude increasing as a increases.
(2) b controls the shape, with b=1 being linear, b > 1 being concave up (increasing rate), b < 1
being concave down (decreasing slope).
Problem 2-17.
Depth Clean Water Polluted Water Difference
0 0.7 0.65 0.05
0.25 0.615625 0.563125 0.0525
0.5 0.5375 0.4825 0.055
0.75 0.465625 0.408125 0.0575
1 0.4 0.34 0.06
1.25 0.340625 0.278125 0.0625
2-10
1.5 0.2875 0.2225 0.065
1.75 0.240625 0.173125 0.0675
2 0.2 0.13 0.07
2.25 0.165625 0.093125 0.0725
2.5 0.1375 0.0625 0.075
2.75 0.115625 0.038125 0.0775
3 0.1 0.02 0.08
3.25 0.090625 0.008125 0.0825
3.5 0.0875 0.0025 0.085
3.75 0.090625 0.003125 0.0875
4 0.1 0.01 0.09
4.25 0.115625 0.023125 0.0925
4.5 0.1375 0.0425 0.095
The light penetrates less polluted water. The difference increases as the depth of the water increases.
Problem 2-18.
Decline in The Proportion of The
Population
Living in Rural
Areas
60
50
40
Decline
30
(%)
20
10
0
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960
1970
Year
2-10
Association Between The Change in Central
City Population And The Increase In Proportion
Living in Suburban Areas
40
30
% 20 Suburban
10 Central
0
Problem 2-19.
Type Use Independent Dependent Variable Example
Variable
Area charts Three-dimensional data that Measured on an Measured on the Analyzing the traffic
include both nominal and interval scale and interval scale and at an intersection
interval-independent shown on the cumulated over all
variables. abscissa values of the nominal
variable
Pie charts Graphically present data Measured on an Breakdown according
recorded as fractions, interval scale to form of
percentages, or proportions transportation in a
shipping company
Bar charts Data recorded on an interval One or more A magnitude or a Reinforcing steel
scale recorded on fraction production
nominal or ordinal
scales
Column charts Similar to bar charts Used for the Expressed as a Capacity of
abscissa. percentage (or desalination plants
fraction) of a total. It
is shown as the
ordinate.
Scatter When both variables are Shown on the Shown on the Yield strength and
diagrams measured on interval or abscissa ordinate carbon content
ratio scales.
Line graphs Illustrate mathematical Measured on Measured on interval Peak discharge rates
equations interval or ratio or ratio scales.
scales Shown as the
ordinate
Combination Experimental data and Operation of a marine
charts theoretical (or fitted) vessel
prediction equations. Two
or more of the above
mentioned methods are used
to present data.
Three Describe the relationships Any of the above
dimensional among three variables. mentioned examples
charts can be displayed.
2-11
Problem 2-20.
U.S. Citizens As a Function of Age Group
<5
11.10% 7.20%
5-9
7.40%
4.50% 10-14
15-19
5.10% 8.10% 20-24
25-29
5.20% 30-34
35-39
9.30%
4.90% 40-44
45-49
5.20% 50-54
55-59
9.40%
6.20% 60-64
7.80% 8.60% >65
The pie chart shows the percentage of the U.S. citizens with respect to their age group. It would be
also meaningful to classify the citizens as young, adult, and senior. The following table shows the
distribution of the citizens as a function of the new classification:
Age group Young(<20) Adult(20-64) Senior(>65)
Percentage 32 56.9 11.1
11%
32%
Young(<20)
Adult(20-
64)
Senior(>65)
57%
2-12
Problem 2-21.
(a). Pie charts:
Traffic Control Method: flashing
red light
23%
36% Loss of Life
Major Damage
Minor Damage
41%
18%
Loss of Life
43%
Major
Damage
39%
Minor
Damage
2-13
(c). Emphasis on differences between traffic control methods:
70
60
50 Flashing red light
40
2-w ay Stop signs
30
20 4-w ay Stop signs
10
0
Loss of Major Minor
Lif e Damage Damage
0%
Loss of Major Minor
Lif e Damage Damage
(e). The advantage of pie charts over bar charts is that they show the breakdown of accident
severity as a proportion or percentage of 100%. On the other hand, bar charts clearly illustrate the
increase or decrease of the rate of accident severity type from year to year. Column charts also
show the breakdown of severity as a proportion of the whole, but for example, it is unclear as to
the exact percentage of major damages in a 2-way stop sign control method.
Problem 2-22.
Steel Concrete Prestressed Concrete
12
10
Number
8
6
4
2
0
1989 1990 1991
Year
2-14
1989 1990 1991
Year = 1989
15
Number
10
Prestressed Concrete
5 Concrete
0 Steel
1989
1990 1991
Year
Problem 2-23.
0.5m intervals
Interval Frequency Rel. Freq.
1.69 - 2.19 10 0.175439
2.19 - 2.69 17 0.298246
2.69 - 3.19 18 0.315789
3.19 - 3.69 5 0.087719
3.69 - 4.19. 6 0.105263
4.19 - 4.69 0 0
4.69 - 5.19 0 0
5.19 - 5.69 1 0.017544
Total 57 0.982456
2-15
Histogram of River Stage Data
20
18
16
14
Frequenc
12
10 Histogram of River Stage Data
8
y
6
4
2
0
2.19 - 2.69 - 3.19 - 3.69 - 4.19 - 4.69 - 5.19 -
1.69 - 2.69 3.19 3.69 4.19 4.69 5.19 5.69
2.19 .
Stage (m )
0.35
0.3
Relative Frequency
0.25
0.2
Histogram of River Stage
0.15 Data
0.1
0.05
0
1.69 - 2.19 - 2.69 - 3.19 - 3.69 - 4.19 - 4.69 - 5.19 -
2.19 2.69 3.19 3.69 4.19. 4.69 5.19 5.69
Stage (m)
The difference between this relative frequency histogram and Figure 2-19 is that the relative frequencies are much
smaller due to a smaller interval size.
Problem 2-24.
Range
Bin (m^3/s)
1 <0
2 0-25
3 25-50
4 50-75
5 75-100
2-16
6 100-125
7 125-150
8 150-175
9 175-200
10 200-225
11 225-250
12 250-275
13 275-300
14 300-325
15 325-350
16 350-375
The shape of this histogram is slightly different than Figure 2-20 in the book. Both histograms are highly skewed.
With the smaller bin sizes in this histogram, you are able to see more variations in the data and the shape looks more
bell-like. Instead of the frequency constantly decreasing it goes up and down and up and down but maintains its
overall shape.
Problem 2-25.
The data vary. In the first interval, the measured frequencies are more numerous than the simulated data; but in the
later intervals, the simulated data have generally greater frequencies than the measured data.
The simulated data can has some differences with the measured data and the usage of the simulation should be based
on the reason why the simulation is done in the first place.
Problem 2-26.
Using an interval of 0.1 ksi, the following table can be constructed.
2-17
Mid- Count
Frequency Cumulative x(count) 2
x (count)
interval (f) value
2.5 1 0.025 1 2.5 6.25
2.6 1 0.025 2 2.6 6.76
2.7 0 0 2 0 0
2.8 0 0 2 0 0
2.9 2 0.05 4 5.8 16.82
3 0 0 4 0 0
3.1 2 0.05 6 6.2 19.22
3.2 5 0.125 11 16 51.2
3.3 1 0.025 12 3.3 10.89
3.4 5 0.125 17 17 57.8
3.5 7 0.175 24 24.5 85.75
3.6 6 0.15 30 21.6 77.76
3.7 3 0.075 33 11.1 41.07
3.8 4 0.1 37 15.2 57.76
3.9 1 0.025 38 3.9 15.21
4 0 0 38 0 0
4.1 1 0.025 39 4.1 16.81
4.2 1 0.025 40 4.2 17.64
Total 40 1 138 480.94
Note: A larger interval can be used and might produce better results than the interval of 0.1 ksi
used herein.
Histogram:
7
6
Number of Tests
5
4
3
2
1
0
2.5 2.7 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.5 3.7 3.9 4.1
2-18
Frequency Diagram:
0.2
0.18
0.16
Relative Frequency
0.14
0.12
0.1
0.08
0.06
0.04
0.02
0
2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4 4.1 4.2
Concrete Strength (in ksi)
Problem 2-27.
Histogram for pile strength
9
8
7
6
Number of
5
4
Piles
3
2
1
0
5000-6500 6500-8000 8000-9500 9500-11000 11000-
12500
Strength
(Kips)
0.20
0.15
0.10
0.05
0.00
Strength (Kips)
2-19
Problem 2-28.
Histogram for number of defects
8
7
6
5
Number of
4
boards
3
2
1
0
0.0-0.8 0.8-1.6 1.6-2.4 2.4-3.2 3.2-
4.0
Defect
Numbers
0.20
Relative
0.15
0.10
0.05
0.00
0.0-0.8 0.8-1.6 1.6-2.4 2.4-3.2 3.2-
4.0
Defect
Numbers
Problem 2-29.
Case (a)
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
55-60 60-65 65-70 70-75 75-80 80-85 85-90 90-95 95-100
2-20
Case (b)
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90 90-100
Case (c)
15
10
0
55-65 65-75 75-85 85-95 95-105
While based on the same data, the histograms give different impressions of the grade distribution.
Figure (a) indicates a two-peaks distribution, while Figure (b) suggests a uniform distribution and
Figure (c) suggests a one-peak distribution.
Observations: (1) Histograms based on small samples can be misleading; (2) For small and
moderate samples, histograms should be developed for different cell widths and cell bounds before
making conclusions about the data.
2-21
Problem 2-30.
Sample
Mean Std. Dev. k min max range interval
# LAB A LAB B
1 232 241 245.63 6.30 5.87 232.00 256.00 24.00 4.00
2 234 243
3 236 243 Bin Frequency
LAB A
10
4 237 244 232 2
8
Frequency
5 237 244 236 4
6
6 239 244 240 4 4
7 241 246 244 7 2
8 241 246 248 9 0
232 236 240 244 248 252 256
9 243 247 252 2
Bin
6
23 251 253 247 8
4
24 251 253 250 5
2
25 251 254 253 5 0
241 244 247 250 253 256 259
Bin
The average from Lab B is closer to the known concentration of 250 ppb than the average from
Lab A. Also, the measurements from Lab B are more consistent than the measurements from Lab
A because the scatter is smaller – this means that the values deviates to lesser extent from the
average. Overall, Lab B presents the best yearly data.
Problem 2-31.
Using the random number generation feature of excel, you could estimate various sample sizes (n
= 25,50,100, ect.) to find rough boundaries which overestimate and underestimate the population
and then iterate to find an appropriate sample size n-ideal. Continue to generate additional values
(increasing sample size) and periodically re-compute the ordinates of the relative frequency
histogram of the simulated data. Compare each ordinate of the simulated and measured data
histograms by computing the absolute value of the difference. When the difference is less than
some tolerance, say 0.01%, then assume the sample size of the generated data provides data that
represents the measured data. The assumed and simulated data do not agree. The sample size
should be increased until the two data sets agree, because and increased sample size will yield
2-22
more accurate simulated data. I would increase the sample size until the differences are statistically
insignificant.
Problem 2-32.
0-49 10
50-99 24 34
100-149 19
150-199 3 22
200-249 3
250-299 2 5
300-349 1
350-399 0 1
400-449 3
450-499 0 3
500-549 1
550-599 2 3
600-649 4
650-699 1 5
700-749 5
750-799 1 6
800-849 0
850-899 1 1
30
40
25 35
30
20
25
15 20
15
10
10
5 5
0
0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
Observations: (1) If the interval is too small, cell ordinates may appear with gaps showing random
variation; (2) for samples with most values in a few cells, the shape of the distribution is not
decisive, even for moderate samples.
2-23
2.6. Descriptive Measures
Problem 2-33.
Monthly variation in the Concentration:
100
Concentration (%)
80
60 Feb.
Apr.
40
June
20 Aug.
0 Oct.
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 Dec.
Ye ar
60 1983
50 1984
40 1985
30
(%)
1986
20
1987
10
0 1988
Feb. Apr. June Aug. Oct.
Dec. 1989
1990
Month
Both variables are important. For example, the annual variation is evident for Feb., but less
significant for April. The monthly variation, which is expected, is very evident in the first figure.
Problem 2-34.
Central tendency measures:
40
xi
a. Mean = i =1 = 3.45 ksi
40
b. Median = (x20+x21)/2 = 3.5 ksi
c. Mode = value of highest frequency = 3.5 ksi
2-24
Problem 2-35.
Central tendency measures:
20
x i
a. Mean = i =1
= 9564.95 kips
20
b. Median = (x10+x11)/2 = 9685.5 kips
c. Mode = value of highest frequency = No mode, no value occurred more than once.
Problem 2-36.
Box-and-whisker plot data:
Feb. Apr. June Aug. Oct. Dec.
Mean 64.82 70.73 81.36 87.82 65.73 58.73
Median 64 72 81 87 66 59
Min. 56 65 77 83 60 50
Max. 74 74 86 94 72 66
xp=90 73 73 85 92 70 64
xp=75 67.5 72.5 84 89.5 67.5 63.5
xp=25 61.5 69.5 79 86 63.5 56
xp=10 59 66 78 86 62 51
Box-and-whisker plot:
The following is the box-and-whisker plot constructed only for the month of February. For
multiple box and whisker plots display, refer to Section 2.5.4 and Figure 2-16 of the textbook.
100
80
m ax
90%
75%
C o n cen tr a tio n m ea n
(% ) m ed ia n
60 25%
10%
m in
40
20
0
F eb.
Frequency Histogram:
Concentration 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89 90-100
Frequency 0.136 0.348 0.227 0.242 0.045
2-25
Frequency Histogram of Maximum Daily Ozone
Concentration
0.4
0.3
Frequency
0.2
0.1
0
50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89 90-100
Concentration
Problem 2-37.
Mean = sum/6 = 165.9/6 = 27.65 mg/l
Median = 1.6 mg/l
The extreme value of 157.9 greatly affects the mean but not the median. In general, the median is
much less sensitive to highly deviant measurements, which may be due to recording errors or
random variation. For the data given, the mean value is 27.65 mg/L, while the median value is 1.6.
The median is similar to 5 of the 6 measurements, while the average value is unlike any of the 6
measurements.
Problem 2-38.
Section A Section B
mean 7.58 5.95
median 8 6
mode 9 6
Section A Section B
8 4.5
7 4
6 3.5
3
5
2.5
4
2
3
1.5
2
1
1
0.5
0 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The grades in section B are bell-shaped and so the three measures of central tendency are very
similar. The grades in section A are skewed towards the lower values so the three measures show
a greater difference with the mode much larger than the mean.
2-26
Problem 2-39.
X = i=1 f i xi
k
where k is the integer number of scores of xi and fi is the frequency of the
number of scores xi. The equation provides a weighted sum of the values
where fi are the weights that must add up to one.
Problem 2-40.
1 n 190
B= B = = 7.917
i=1 i
n 24
0.5 0.5
1 1
S = (B − B ) 2
= (B − 7.917) 2 = 2.669
n −1
B i i
23
Problem
Decade2-41. Mean St. Dev. COV
1920-29 48.5 8.21 0.169
1930-39 45.1 7.78 0.173
1940-49 73.9 14.94 0.202
1950-59 105.4 11.52 0.109
1960-69 116.8 4.76 0.041
1970-79 184.8 46.62 0.252
1980-89 468.9 144.4 0.308
1990-99 711.8 80.11 0.113
Mean
Standard Deviation
800.0
160.00
700.0
140.00
600.0
120.00
500.0
100.00
400.0
80.00
300.0
60.00
200.0
40.00
100.0
20.00
0.0
20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 0.00 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
COV
0.35
0.3
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.1
0.05
0
20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
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The mean shows an exponentially increasing trend. Generally, the standard deviation increases
near the end. The COV varies randomly over the decades.
Problem 2-42.
Dispersion measures:
40
( xi − mean)2
a. Variance = i =1 = 0.124103 ksi 2
40 − 1
b. Standard deviation = Square root of variance = 0.35228 ksi ksi
c. Coefficient of variation = Standard deviation/mean = 0.1021
Problem 2-43.
Dispersion measures:
20
(x − mean )
2
i
a. Variance = i =1
= 2270966 kips 2
20 −1
b. Standard deviation = Square root of variance = 1507 kips
c. Coefficient of variation = Standard deviation/mean = 0.1575
Problem
Decade2-44. Mean St. Dev. COV
1920-29 48.5 8.21 0.169
1930-39 45.1 7.78 0.173
1940-49 73.9 14.94 0.202
1950-59 105.4 11.52 0.109
1960-69 116.8 4.76 0.041
1970-79 184.8 46.62 0.252
1980-89 468.9 144.4 0.308
1990-99 711.8 80.11 0.113
Mean
Standard Deviation
800.0
160.00
700.0
140.00
600.0
120.00
500.0
100.00
400.0
80.00
300.0
60.00
200.0
40.00
100.0
20.00
0.0
20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
0.00
20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
2-28
COV
0.35
0.3
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.1
0.05
0
20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
The mean shows an exponentially increasing trend. Generally, the standard deviation increases
near the end. The COV varies randomly over the decades.
Problem 2-45.
1 1
2
S2 = (x − x) 2 = (x 2 − 2xx + x )
n −1 n −1
= 1 n −1 x 2 − 2x x + x i
2
=
1
n −1
2 2
x 2 − 2nx + nx =
1
n −1
x 2 − nx
2
=
1
x − (
2
x) 2
n −1 n
Problem 2-46.
Y = X / 3.281
S y = S x / 3.281
S y 2 = S x 2 /(3.281) 2
The general rule is that the units of Y equals the units of X multiplied by the multiplication
constant for transforming X to Y. The variance of Y is the square of the conversion factor times the
variance of X.
Problem 2-47.
Box-and-whisker plot data:
Feb. Apr. June Aug. Oct. Dec.
Mean 64.82 70.73 81.36 87.82 65.73 58.73
Median 64 72 81 87 66 59
Min. 56 65 77 83 60 50
Max. 74 74 86 94 72 66
xp=90 73 73 85 2-2992 70 64
xp=75 67.5 72.5 84 89.5 67.5 63.5
xp=10 59 66 78 86 62 51
Box-and-whisker plot:
The following is the box-and-whisker plot constructed only for the month of February. For
multiple box and whisker plots display, refer to Section 2.5.4 and Figure 2-16 of the textbook.
100
80
m ax
90%
75%
C o n cen tr a tio n m ea n
(% ) m ed ia n
60 25%
10%
m in
40
20
0
F eb.
Frequency Histogram:
Concentration 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89 90-100
Frequency 0.136 0.348 0.227 0.242 0.045
0.4
0.3
Frequency
0.2
0.1
0
50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89 90-100
Concentration
Problem 2-48.
Ranking the values for the 1920-59 period:
123,120,116,108,108,102,98,96,96,93,92,92,90,83,65,65,64,61,61,60,55,54,54,53,53,52,
52,51,51,50,49,49,47,47,46,39,38,38,30,28.
Ranking the values for the 1960-99 period:
870,775,739,736,725,707,700,656,629,619,611,609,581,574,537,426,418,407,317,274,251,229,21
5,210,187,165,155,145,140,128,123,121,121,120,120,115,114,113,112,109.
Thus the necessary characteristics for the two periods:
1920-59 1960-99
max 123.0 870.0
90% 108.0 725.0
75% 93.0 611.0
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mean 68.2 370.6
median 57.5 262.5
25% 49.0 123.0
10% 38.0 114.0
min 28.0 109.0
Problem 2-49.
A = 2.042 Standard deviation, SD (A) = 1.681 B = 7.917 SD(B) = 2.669
5
7
4
6
4
5 3
4 3
2
3
2
2
1
1 1
0 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
2-31
The bar charts for the number of accidents per month at the two intersections indicate that the
accident rate at B has a higher mean and greater spread.
2-32
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IX
THE DAWN OF INTELLIGENCE
When a baby has learned to see things clearly, and has known the
joys of handling them, it is natural that he should soon come to feel
the need of getting to them when they chance to lie beyond arm
reach. Apparently the first impulse to move the whole body does
always come from this desire to get at something; but I doubt if this
remains a very important motive throughout the whole process of
learning. There is so much in that process that is instinctive that the
baby seems to be in great part taken up and carried on by a current
of blind impulse. Then, too, the whole structure of bone, and joint,
and muscle is so fitted to certain positions and movements that in
the mere chance exercising of his limbs he is steadily brought nearer
to the great race acts of balance and locomotion.
One might suppose that with babies sprawling, creeping, and
toddling on every hand, we should not lack evidence on the
beginnings of human locomotion; but as a matter of fact, the stage
that precedes walking is involved in a good deal of confusion.
Records are scanty, and children seem to vary a good deal in their
way of going at the thing. Most of them “creep before they gang”; but
there seems to be a stage before creeping, when, if the child is given
full freedom of movement, he will get over the floor in some cruder
way, rolling, hitching, dragging himself by the elbows, humping
forward measure-worm fashion, or wriggling along like a snake.
Perhaps, as I have already suggested, this is because skirts delay
the natural beginning of creeping, and these other movements
require less freedom of the legs; perhaps there is some deeper
reason connected with race history. Sometimes the baby makes
these less efficient movements answer till walking is acquired, and
never creeps at all.
Our baby, as we have seen, had already made her first ineffective
attempts to pull herself forward and reach something; and lying face
down, unable to turn over, had so propped herself with hands and
knees that when she tried to move she almost stumbled on creeping
unawares. But soon after she was six months old, she discovered
the other half of the trick of rolling—reversing herself from front to
rear as well as from rear to front; and this gave her such an enlarged
freedom that it stopped all aspirations in other directions.
She did not deliberately turn over and over to get anywhere. She
simply rolled and kicked about the floor, turning over when she felt
like it or when she wished to reach something, highly content, and
asking odds of nobody. If by chance she turned in the same direction
a number of times in succession, she would drift halfway across the
room, meeting no end of interesting things by the way—mamma’s
slipper tips, chair rockers, table legs, waste basket, petals dropped
from the vases, and so on. It was a great enlargement of life, and
kept her happy for six or seven weeks.
During this time, her balance in sitting grew secure, so that she could
sit on the floor as long as she chose, occupied with playthings; but
she cared more for the rolling.
It was in these weeks, too, that two great new interests came into
our baby’s life. The first was a really passionate one, and it seized
her suddenly, the week after she was half a year old. The door had
just opened to admit a guest, amid a bustle of welcome, when a cry
of such desire as we had never heard from our baby in all her little
life called our attention to her. Utterly indifferent to the arrival of
company (she who had always loved a stir of coming and going, and
taken more interest in people than in anything else!) she was leaning
and looking out of the window at the dog, as if she had never seen
him before—though he had been before her eyes all her life. She
would think of nothing else; the guest, expert in charming babies,
could not get a glance.
Day after day, for weeks, the little thing was filled with excitement at
sight of the shaggy Muzhik, moving her arms and body, and crying
out with what seemed intensest joy and longing. When he came
near, her excitement increased, and she reached out and caught at
him; her face lighted with happiness when he stood close by; she
showed not the least fear when he put his rough head almost in her
face, but gazed earnestly at it; she watched for him at the window, or
from her baby carriage. No person or thing had ever interested her
so much. Muzhik, on his part, soon learned to give the snatching
little hands a wide berth; and his caution may have enhanced his
charm.
Later in the month, she showed somewhat similar excitement at
sight of a cow. About the same time, too, she first noticed the
pigeons as they flew up from the ground.
This was the beginning of a lasting interest in animals, animal
pictures, animal stories. It is not easy to account fully for this interest,
appearing in such intense degree, at so early an age. All children
show it to some extent, though in many it is mingled with a good,
deal of fear. One is tempted to connect both the fear and the interest
with race history—the intimate association of primitive man with
animals; but a six-month baby is traversing a period of development
far earlier than that of the primitive hunter. Professor Sully has some
good suggestions about the sympathy between children and
animals, but these, too, fail of application to a baby so young.
Probably to her the main charm was the movement, the rough
resemblance to people, joined with so many differences, now first
noticed with the interest of novelty—and (as later incidents made me
suspect) the quantity of convenient hair to be pulled.
The other new interest waked late in the seventh month: that joy in
outdoors that was for many months of the little one’s life her best
happiness. Up to this time, she had liked to be taken out in her baby
carriage, but mainly for the motion. Now, one morning, grandma took
her and sat down quietly on the veranda, saying that she wanted her
to learn to love the sunshine, the birds and flowers and trees, without
needing the baby carriage and its motion. The little one sat in her
lap, looking about with murmurs of delight; and after that, her
happiness in rolling about freely was much greater when we spread
a blanket on veranda or lawn, and laid her there. Within two weeks,
she would coax to be taken outdoors, and then coax till she was put
down out of arms, and left to her own happiness. She would roll
about by the hour, the most contented baby in the world, breaking
occasionally into cries and movements of overflowing joy.
I did not think that at this age the novel sights and sounds outdoors
had much to do with her pleasure; she did not yet notice them much.
Nor could it have been the wideness and freedom of outlook, for she
had not yet come to distant seeing—a hundred feet was as far as I
had ever seen her look. Later, all this counted; but now I thought that
the mere physical effect of activity in the fresh air, together with the
bright light, and perhaps the moving and playing of lights in the
leaves, must make up most of the charm.
In the early weeks of the seventh month idle baby’s rollicking spirits
were striking; in fact, she became for a time quite a little rowdy, ho-
ho-ing and laughing in loud, rough tones, snatching this way and
that, clutching at our hair with exultant shouts and clamor. In the
latter part of the month, her manners were better—indeed, it was
fully a year before I saw them as bad again; but she was much given
to seizing at our faces, flinging herself at them with cries and growls
(exactly as if she had been playing bear), and mouthing and lightly
biting them. And indeed it must be confessed that while our baby’s
behavior was often very pretty for weeks together, she had many fits
of rough play and hoydenish spirits, and our faces and hair were
never quite safe from romping attacks before she was two years old.
This boisterousness was not overflowing spirits (real joyousness
showed itself more gently) and I could never trace its psychological
origin.
At intervals during the month, she continued to improve her bodily
knowledge of herself, investigating her head and face and even the
inside of her mouth, with her fingers; she rubbed her forefinger
curiously with her thumb; she ran out her tongue and moved it about,
trying its motions and feeling her lips. And the very first day of the
month there had appeared that curious behavior that we call
“archness” and “coquetting” in a baby (though anything so grown up
as real archness or coquetry is impossible at this age), looking and
smiling at a person who was somewhat strange, but very amusing,
to her, then ducking down her head when he spoke, and hiding her
face on her mother’s shoulder. Whatever the real reason of such
behavior may be, there is plainly self-consciousness in it. So, too,
when, at seven months old, she began to try deliberately to attract
the interest of callers, wrinkling up her nose with a friendly grimace
till they paid attention to her.
Both these forms of self-consciousness were common after this.
Neither is what we could call human or rational self-consciousness.
Any dog or kitten will show them. But they certainly are something
more than mere bodily feeling of self. If we need a name for it, we
might call it a beginning of intelligent self-perception, as
distinguished both from bodily self-feeling, and rational self-
knowledge—in which the mind, years later, will say to itself clearly,
“This is I.”
We now began to suspect (as she ended her seventh month) that
the baby was beginning to connect our names with us; and when we
tried her by asking, “Where is grandpa?” or “mamma” or “aunty,” she
really did look at the right one often enough to raise a presumption
that she knew what she was about. The association of name and
person was still feeble and shaky, but it proved to be real. In a few
days it was firm as to grandpa (who was quite persona grata,
because he built up blocks for her to knock down, and carried her
about from object to object, to let her touch and examine); and in a
week or two as to the rest of us.
Professor Preyer complains of teaching babies mere tricks, which
have no real relation to their development; and certainly it is a sound
rule that self-unfolding, not teaching, is the way in which a baby
should develop in the earliest years. But Preyer’s baby learned to
wave his hand, and play “patacake,” and show “How big is baby?”
and the rest of it, just as other babies do; mammas and nurses
cannot resist it. And as long as the babies like it, I do not see that it
can do any harm, if it is not overdone. Besides, it may be said that
these standard tricks are all closely related to the sign language, and
so fall in well with the natural development at this stage. And again,
the extreme teachability of the human child is his great superiority
over the brute—all our civilization rests on it; and when the time
comes that he is capable of receiving training, it may be as well that
his power of doing so should be used a little, and that these simple
gesture tricks of immemorial nursery tradition are good exercises to
begin with. It is possible to make a fetich of “self-development,”
beyond all common sense.
At all events, as our baby approached seven months old, her
mamma had begun to teach her to wave by-by. For a couple of
weeks, the mother would hold up the little hand and wave it at the
departing guest, and before long the baby would give a feeble
waggle or two after her mother had let go; next, she would need only
to be started; and a week after she was seven months old she
waved a spontaneous farewell as I left the room. There was a long
history of the gesture after that, for it was lost and regained,
confused with other hand tricks and straightened out, and altogether
played a considerable part in the story of sign language and of
memory, which I shall not have time to relate. But at all times it paid
for itself in the delight it gave the baby: it reconciled her to almost
any parting, and even to going to bed.
Her objection to going to bed, which had been evident since the fifth
month, was because she thought sleeping was a waste of good
playtime, not because she had any associations of fear and
repugnance connected with it. She had never been left to cry herself
to sleep alone, but was rocked and sung to in good old fashion. But
she did show signs at this time of timidity and distress in waking from
sleep, clinging piteously to her mother and crying. She had waked
and cried alone a number of times, and, as I have already said, she
seemed to have formed some associations of fear in this way. But I
think there were deeper reasons for the confused distress on
waking, which from now until halfway through the third year
appeared at times.
I have spoken several times of the ease with which even we grown
people lose our sense of personal identity; and changes in brain
circulation make such confusions especially likely at first waking from
sleep. With babies, whose feeling of identity is but insecurely
established, this must be much more common; moreover, a baby’s
conditions of breathing are less regular than ours, and it is probable
that as he comes out of sleep, and the circulation and respiration of
the waking hours slowly reestablish themselves, he has all sorts of
queer, lost feelings. I was pretty sure, from our baby’s behavior I in
the next two years, that she struggled back to the firm shores of
waking consciousness through dark waters of confusion, and
needed a friendly hand to cling to. This, I suspect, is the secret of the
wild crying in the night, which doctors call “night terror”: it is not
terror, I think, but vague distress, increased by the darkness—loss of
self, of direction, of all one’s usual bodily feeling.
In these sensitive states attending sleep it is likely that some of the
emotional conditions for life are formed, and the ties between mother
and child knit firmest. My observation is that the one the baby loves
most is the one that sleeps close by, that bends over him as he
struggles confusedly back to waking, and steers him tenderly
through the valley of the shadow of sleep; and next, the one that
plays most patiently and observantly with him—not the one that
feeds him.
In her absorption in her growing bodily activity, the baby had taken
no marked steps in intellectual development, though in skill of
handling, and in ability to understand what went on about her and
put two and two together, she made steady progress. Early in the
eighth month, some definite instances of this appeared. She showed
a discreet preference at bedtime for anybody rather than her mother,
and clung vigorously round my neck or her grandfather’s when that
messenger of fate came for her. She dropped things to watch them
fall, with a persistent zeal and interest such as she had not shown in
earlier experiments of the sort. She knew what it meant if one of us
put a hat on, and pleaded with outstretched hands and springing
motion to go too. Once she found that in moving a long stick she was
moving some twigs at its farther end, and kept up the experiment
with curiosity.
It was about this time—the first fortnight of the eighth month—that
taste first became a source of pleasure to our baby. She had been
given an experimental taste of several things before, but beyond the
grimace of surprise (it looks like utmost disgust, but there seems no
doubt that it really means surprise only) with which little babies greet
new tastes, she had shown no great interest in them. Now, as
nature’s supply grew scant, she was introduced more seriously to
several supplementary foods, and at least once rejoiced over the
taste a good deal. Still, she was apt soon to tire of them, and on the
whole taste did not at any time in her first year take a large place
among her interests.
As the middle of the eighth month approached, it was evident that an
advance in power of movement was coming. The baby was getting
up on hands and knees again; she made daily a few aimless
creeping movements; and in her bath she would draw herself to her
knees, and partly to her feet, holding by the edge of the tub, and
somewhat supported by the water. A few days later she drew herself
forward a few inches, flat on her stomach, to get something. But she
still did not catch the idea of creeping, and rolling remained her great
pleasure for another fortnight.
In this fortnight, which brought our baby to eight months old, the
rolling grew very rapid and free. She would now roll over and over in
the same direction, not to get anywhere in particular (she never
learned to use rolling for that purpose), but just for fun. She varied
the exercise with the most lively kicking—heels raised in air and
brought down together with astonishing vigor and zest; and with
twisting about and getting on hands and knees, or even on hands
and feet, prattling joyously, and having a beautiful time all by herself,
for as long as the authorities would leave her alone. I have no note
or memory that she ever tired of it, or asked for attention or change;
it was always some one else who interfered, because meal-time or
nap-time or something had come.
In the last week of the month she learned to raise herself to a sitting
position; and as she could now sit up or lie down at will, she tumbled
about the floor with still more variety and enjoyment. In the same
week she began to pull herself daily quite to her feet in the tub. It
was an ordinary wooden wash-tub which was bridging the interval
between her own outgrown one and the grown-up bath-tub; and she
would stand, leaning her weight partly on her hands, on the edge of
the tub, with her feet planted wide apart, quite on the opposite side,
giving her a pretty secure base.
In this fortnight the baby’s understanding of us and feeling of
nearness to us were noticeably greater. Her attachment to her
favorites was striking. She would cling to us with all the strength of
her little arms, sometimes pressing her lips against our faces in a
primitive sort of kiss. Her desire for our attention was intense—little
arms stretched out, face full of desire, while she uttered urgent cries.
Now and then she was entirely unwilling to eat a meal till the person
she had set her heart on at the moment had yielded to her pleading,
and come to sit close beside her, for company.
She understood one or two little directions—“by-by,” and “patacake”;
or, at least, associated them with the acts. She had some idea of
what “No, no!” meant, and she knew perfectly that she must not keep
paper or flower petals in her mouth, and after biting off a bit would
put out her tongue, laughing, to have the forbidden scrap removed.
And one day when I said to her, “Don’t you want to come to aunty?”
without any gesture, she surprised me by leaning forward and
putting out her hands to me, exactly as if I had reached my arms out
for her. She could not have understood the whole question, for she
hardly understood words at all at the time; but she must have made
out “come,” and, putting it with “aunty,” which she had known for
weeks, got at my meaning.
On the day she was eight months old, at last, the baby half sprawled,
half crept, forward to get something. The early, aimless stages of
locomotion were over, and she was about to start in in good earnest
to learn to creep and to stand.
XI
CREEPING AND STANDING