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This document provides instructions for an assignment on applying statistical concepts to determine effective drug dosages based on a study. The study administered varying doses of a new drug to 40 mice divided into four groups. It recorded the time until sepsis onset for each mouse. The assignment asks students to identify appropriate statistical measures to describe the data results, calculate the number of mice that would be in the top quartile if 40% survived, and explain what information percentiles and quartiles provide. It also provides review exercises on finding statistical measures like range, variance, standard deviation, and calculating z-scores and percentiles.

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Assignment 4

This document provides instructions for an assignment on applying statistical concepts to determine effective drug dosages based on a study. The study administered varying doses of a new drug to 40 mice divided into four groups. It recorded the time until sepsis onset for each mouse. The assignment asks students to identify appropriate statistical measures to describe the data results, calculate the number of mice that would be in the top quartile if 40% survived, and explain what information percentiles and quartiles provide. It also provides review exercises on finding statistical measures like range, variance, standard deviation, and calculating z-scores and percentiles.

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Assignment 4:

Applying the Concepts 3–3


Determining Dosages
In an attempt to determine necessary dosages of a new drug (HDL) used to control sepsis, assume
you administer varying amounts of HDL to 40 mice. You create four groups and label them low
dosage, moderate dosage, large dosage, and very large dosage. The dosages also vary within each
group. After the mice are injected with the HDL and the sepsis bacteria, the time until the onset of
sepsis is recorded. Your job as a statistician is to effectively communicate the results of the study.
1. Which measures of position could be used to help describe the data results?
2. If 40% of the mice in the top quartile survived after the injection, how many mice would that
be?
3. What information can be given from using percentiles?
4. What information can be given from using quartiles?

Review Exercises
1. Find the range, variance, and standard deviation. Assume the data represent samples, and use
the shortcut formula for the unbiased estimator to compute the variance and standard deviation:
The normal daily high temperatures (in degrees Fahrenheit) in January for 10 selected cities
are as follows:
50, 37, 29, 54, 30, 61, 47, 38, 34, 61
The normal monthly precipitation (in inches) for these same 10 cities is listed here:
4.8, 2.6, 1.5, 1.8, 1.8, 3.3, 5.1, 1.1, 1.8, 2.5
Which set is more variable?
2. Team batting averages for major league baseball in 2005 are represented below. Find the variance
and standard deviation for each league.
NL AL
0.252–0.256 4 0.256–0.261 2
0.257–0.261 6 0.262–0.267 5
0.262–0.266 1 0.268–0.273 4
0.267–0.271 4 0.274–0.279 2
0.272–0.276 1 0.280–0.285 1

3. The average age of senators in the 108th Congress was 59.5 years. If the standard deviation
was 11.5 years, find the z scores corresponding to the oldest and youngest senators:
Robert C. Byrd (D, WV), 86, and John Sununu (R, NH), 40.

4. The average teacher’s salary in a particular state is $54,166. If the standard deviation is
$10,200, find the salaries corresponding to the following z scores.
a. 2 b. -1 c. 0

PHM111s - Probability and Statistics


5. Find the percentile rank for each value in the data set. The data represent the values in billions
of dollars of the damage of 10 hurricanes.
1.1, 1.7, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 3.3, 6.2, 6.8, 20.3.

6. check each data set for outliers.


a. 24, 32, 54, 31, 16, 18, 19, 14, 17, 20
b. 321, 343, 350, 327, 200

7. identify the five-number summary and find the interquartile range.


19, 16, 48, 22, 7

8. Construct a boxplot for the following data representing the number of games pitched by major
league baseball’s earned run average (ERA) leaders for the past few years.
30, 34, 29, 30, 34, 29, 31, 33, 34, 27, 30, 27, 34, 32.

9. Starting teacher salaries (in equivalent U.S. dollars) for upper secondary education in selected
countries are listed below. Which set of data is more variable? (The U.S. average starting
salary at this time was $29,641.)
Europe Asia
Sweden $48,704 Korea $26,852
Germany 41,441 Japan 23,493
Spain 32,679 India 18,247
Finland 32,136 Malaysia 13,647
Denmark 30,384 Philippines 9,857
Netherlands 29,326 Thailand 5,862
Scotland 27,789

PHM111s - Probability and Statistics

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