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This document contains an assignment for a statistics course involving calculating various statistical measures from data sets. The assignment includes: 1) Calculating the mean, median, mode for several data sets listing frequencies of values. 2) Calculating measures of central tendency and dispersion like mean deviation, standard deviation, and quartile deviations. 3) Finding the mean and standard deviation from data listing frequencies of breaking strengths. 4) Determining the mean and variance from a probability distribution of imperfections. 5) Calculating moment generating functions and moments from a probability density function.

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This document contains an assignment for a statistics course involving calculating various statistical measures from data sets. The assignment includes: 1) Calculating the mean, median, mode for several data sets listing frequencies of values. 2) Calculating measures of central tendency and dispersion like mean deviation, standard deviation, and quartile deviations. 3) Finding the mean and standard deviation from data listing frequencies of breaking strengths. 4) Determining the mean and variance from a probability distribution of imperfections. 5) Calculating moment generating functions and moments from a probability density function.

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MAT 2001-STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS

Assignment –I

1. Find the mean, median, mode for the following data.

(i) Wages : 2000 – 3000 3000 – 4000 4000 – 5000 5000 – 6000 6000 – 7000
No. of workers: 3 5 20 10 5

(ii)

C.I. 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

f 5 8 7 12 28 20 10 10

(iii) For the following frequency table calculate mean, median and mode:

C.I 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120 120 – 140 140 – 160 160 – 180 180-200
f: 6 9 11 14 20 15 10 8 7
2. Calculate Mean deviation, standard deviation, Quartile deviations for the following data

(i) Age in years: 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 60 – 70 70 – 80 80 – 90

No. of members: 3 61 132 153 140 51 2

(ii) Compute the quartile deviation as well as coefficient of skewness:

Size: 4-8 8-12 12-16 16-20 20-24 24-28 28-32 32-36 36-40
Frequency: 6 10 18 30 15 12 10 6 2

3. Find the mean and standard deviation of breaking strength of 80 test pieces of
certain alloy from the following table

Breaking 44-46 46-48 48-50 50-52 52-54


strength
No. of 3 24 27 21 5
pieces
4. The probability distribution of X, the number of imperfections per 10 meters of a
synthetic fabric in continuous rolls of uniform width is given below.
x: 0 1 2 3 4

P(x): 0.41 0.37 0.16 0.05 0.01

Find the mean and variance of imperfections per 10 meters of the fabric?

5. A random variable has the p.d.f is given by


2 𝑒 −2𝑥 ; 𝑥≥0
𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) = { }
0, 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒

Find (i) M.G.F (ii) First four moments about the origin

6. Impurities in the batch of final product of a chemical process often reflect a serious
problem. From considerable plant data gathered, it is known that the proportion Y of
impurities in a batch has density function given by

10(1 − 𝑦)2 , 0 ≤ 𝑦 ≤ 1
𝑓(𝑦) = {
0, 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒

(i) Verify that the above is a valid density function.

(ii) A batch is considered not sellable and then not acceptable if the percentage of
impurities exceeds 60%. With the current quality of the process, what is the
percentage of batches that are not acceptable?

7. (i) If the joint probability distribution of X and Y is given by

f(x, y)=(x + y)/ 30, for x =0 ,1,2,3; y =0 ,1,2

Find (a) P(X ≤ 2,Y = 1) (b) P(X>2,Y ≤ 1) (c) P(X>Y) (d) P(X + Y = 4).

(ii) The joint distribution of X and Y is given by


2𝑥+3𝑦
𝑃(𝑥, 𝑦) = , for x = 0,1,2; y = 1,2,3
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(a)Find all marginal distributions of X and Y

(b)Find the conditional distribution of X given Y=1

7. (i) A fast-food restaurant operates both a drive through facility and a walk-in facility.
On a randomly selected day, let X and Y , respectively, be the proportions of the time
that the drive-through and walk-in facilities are in use, and suppose that the joint
density function of these random variables is
f(x,y)= (2/3)(x +2y), 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, 0 ≤ y ≤ 1
(a) Find the marginal density of X. (b) Find the marginal density of Y .
(c) Find the probability that the drive-through facility is busy less than one-half of the
time.

(ii) Each rear tire on an experimental airplane is supposed to be filled to a pressure of


40 pounds per square inch (psi). Let X denote the actual air pressure for the right tire
and Y denote the actual air pressure for the left tire. Suppose that X and Y are random
variables with the joint density function

f(x, y) = k(x2 + y2), 30 ≤ x <50, 30 ≤ y<50, and f(x, y) = 0, elsewhere.

(a) Find k. (b) Find P(30 ≤ X ≤ 40, 40 ≤ Y<50). (c) Find the probability that both tires
are under filled.

8. The joint probability density function of X and Y is


−(𝑥 2 +𝑦 2 )
𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) = {4𝑥𝑦 𝑒 , 0 ≤ 𝑥 < ∞, 0 ≤ 𝑦 < ∞}
0, 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒
Verify whether X and Y are independent random variables?

9. Two random variables X and Y have the following joint probability density functions.
𝑘(4 − 𝑥 − 𝑦); 0 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 2, 0 ≤ 𝑦 ≤ 2
𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) = { }
0, 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒

Find i) The constant k

ii) The marginal densities of X and Y

(iii) The conditional densities of X and Y.

(iv) Var(X) (v) Var(Y) (vi) COV(X,Y)

10. Calculate Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient between the sales and expenses (in
thousands of rupees) of the following 10 firms:

Firm: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Sales: 50 50 55 60 65 65 65 60 60 60

Expenses: 11 13 14 16 16 16 15 14 13 13

11. Find the equations of the lines of regression from the following data. Also estimate
the value of X when Y = 170.

X: 150 152 155 157 160 161 164 166

Y: 154 156 158 159 160 162 161 164

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